Destroyer!: German Destroyers in World War II

2cm guns 5th Flotilla aboard air attack aircraft Altafjord ammunition April armament astern August Baltic Beitzen boiler room bombs Bremen bridge British Builder Deschimag Captain Career summary Cherbourg Commanding officers Completed convoy crew cruiser damaged December deck depth charges Deschimag destroyers Eckholdt Elbing escort February fjord flak Fleet force forward four funnel Galster German destroyers Germaniawerft Giese Gotenhafen Heidkamp Hipper hull Jacobi K.Kpt Kapitän Kapitän zur Kapitänleutnant Kiel knots Korvettenkapitän Kpt.Lt Kriegsmarine Kristiansand Künne laid later Launched Lody Lüdemann Lützow machinery March minelaying mines minesweepers Narvik Naval Navy North Sea Norway November October opened fire operation ordered port radar refit repairs Riedel sailed Scharnhorst Schichau Schoemann September Ship details sighted Skaggerak sortie Soviet speed squadron starboard steam Steinbrinck submarine sunk Swinemünde Tirpitz tonnes torpedo boats torpedo tubes Trondheim turbine room Type 34 Type 36A U-boats vessels vierling waters weather Western France whilst Wilhelmshaven Yard