German torpedo boat T-25

History
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:
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

A sketch of the rescue drawn by Hans Helmut Karsch, while interned in the Curragh Camp (note the Irish tricolours on the Kerlogue) - National Maritime Museum of Ireland

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

  1. ↑ Conway p238
  2. ↑ Helgason, Guðmundur. "Patrol info for U-505 (Eleventh patrol)". German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
  3. ↑ Helgason, Guðmundur. "U-618". German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net.
  4. ↑ Oireachtas Debates, Seanad Éireann 27 April 1994

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