German torpedo boat T-25
History | |
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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: |
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Speed: | 32.5 knots (60.2 km/h; 37.4 mph) |
Complement: | 206 |
Armament: |
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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 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)". German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
- ↑ Helgason, Guðmundur. "U-618". German U-boats of WWII - 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