German torpedo boat T-25
| Career (Nazi Germany) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | T-25 |
| Ordered: | 23 April 1938 |
| Builder: | Schichau, Elbing |
| Laid down: | 1940 |
| Launched: | 1 December 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 12 December 1942 |
| Fate: | Sunk, 28 December 1943 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class and type: | Type 1939 torpedo boat |
| Displacement: | 1,294 long tons (1,315 t) (standard) |
| Length: | 97 m (318 ft 3 in) o/a |
| Beam: | 10 m (32 ft 10 in) |
| Draft: | 3.22 m (10 ft 7 in) |
| Installed power: | 29,000 shp (22,000 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × shafts 2 × Wagner geared steam turbine sets 4 × Wagner water-tube boilers |
| Speed: | 32.5 knots (60.2 km/h; 37.4 mph) |
| Complement: | 206 |
| Armament: | 4 × 1 - 105 mm (4.1 in) guns 2 × 2 - 37 mm (1.5 in) anti-aircraft (AA) guns 7 × 1 - 20 mm (0.8 in) AA guns 2 × 3 - 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes |
| Service record | |
|---|---|
| Commanders: | Korvettenkapitän Wirich von Gartzen |
German torpedo-boat T-25 was a torpedo boat (a type of small destroyer popular in European navies) built for the Kriegsmarine during the Second World War. Built by Schichau of Elbing, T-25 was one of fifteen Type 39 torpedo boats, sometimes referred to as the Elbing-class. She was laid down in 1940, launched on 1 December 1941 and commissioned on 12 December 1942. T-25 was assigned to general escort duties and stationed in Occupied France on the Bay of Biscay.
Fate
In December 1943 T-25 sailed with her flotilla on Operation Bernau, a mission to escort two German blockade runners to safety. The operation was a failure for the German Navy; along with the Narvik-class destroyer Z27 and her sister Elbing-class torpedo boat, T26, were attacked by the British cruisers HMS Glasgow and HMS Enterprise in the Bay of Biscay and sunk on 28 December 1943. Her survivors were rescued by U-505, which picked up 33 men;[2] U-618,[3] which saved 21 from Z27; and by the Irish merchantman MV Kerlogue, which saved 168, from all three, the day after the attack.[4]
Notes
- ↑ Conway p238
- ↑ Helgason, Guðmundur. "Patrol info for U-505 (Eleventh patrol)". U-Boat Patrols. Uboat.net. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
- ↑ U-618 at uboat.net
- ↑ Oireachtas Debates, Seanad Éireann 27 April 1994
References
- Conway : Conways All the Worlds Fighting Ships 1922-1946 (1980) ISBN 0 85177 146 7
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