Destroyer!: German Destroyers in World War II

15cm gun 2cm guns 5th Flotilla aboard air attack aircraft Altafjord ammunition April armament astern Baltic Barents Sea Beitzen boiler room bombs bows bridge Career summary coast Commanding officers completed convoy crew cruiser damage deck depth charges Deschimag destroyers Eckholdt escort February fitted fjord flak Fleet force forward four funnel Galster German destroyers Germaniawerft Giese Gotenhafen Heidkamp Heinemann Hipper hull Jacobi K.Kpt Kapitän Kapitän zur Kapitänleutnant Kattegat Kiel knots Koellner Korvettenkapitän Kpt.Lt Kriegsmarine Kristiansand Künne later Launched Lody Lüdemann Lützow machinery minelayer minelaying mines minesweepers mountings Narvik Naval Navy North Norway October opened fire operation ordered port radar refit repairs Riedel Roeder sailed Scharnhorst Schichau Schoemann September Ship details sighted Skaggerak sortie speed squadron starboard steam Steinbrinck submarine sunk Swinemünde Tirpitz tonnes torpedo boats torpedo tubes Trondheim turbine room twin turret Type 34 Type 36A U-boats vessels vierling weapons weather whilst Wilhelmshaven Yard