Together with the cruisers Köln, Leipzig, Nürnberg and other destroyers operations in the Danzig Beight.
119,0 mOverall length
3156 tMaximum displacement
36,0 knMaximum speed
325Complement
Design and service
The story of Z2 Georg Thiele
Z2 Georg Thiele was part of the 1st destroyer division at the outbreak of the war, operating in the Baltic Sea near Danzig, transferred to the North Sea after the Polnish campaign. During in Operation Weserübung the Z2 Georg Thiele was part of the Kriegsschiffgruppe 1 heading for Narvik and was scuttled on 13. 04.
1940 in the Rombakkenfjord near Narvik after seriously damaged in the first destroyer at Narvik against British destroyers.
Operational history
Service timeline
Operation Weserübung: Georg Thiele joins the destroyers Anton Schmitt, Wolfgang Zenker, Bernd von Arnim, Erich Giese, Erich Koellner, Diether von Roeder, Hans Lüdemann, Hermann Künne and Wilhelm Heidkamp in the Narvik Attack Group.
Operation Weserübung: The destroyer is sunk by the British destroyers Hero, Eskimo and Kimberley at the Rombaksbotten.
At a glance
Technical profile
Dimensions, armament, protection and performance.
Dimensions
- Size (Max)
- 3156 t
- Length (Total)
- 119,0 m
- Length (Waterline)
- 114,0 m
- Beam
- 11,3 m
- Draft
- 4,23 m
- Crew
- 325
Armament
- 12,7 cm L/45 C/34
- 5
- 3,7 cm L/83 C/30
- 4
- 2 cm MG L/65 C/30
- 4-6
- 53,3 cm Torpedo tubes
- 8
- Mines
- 60
Machinery
- Shafts
- 2
- Turbines
- 2
- Type
- Wagner Geared Turbines
Performance
- Total Performance
- 70000 shp
- Speed
- 36,0 kn
- Range
- 1900 sm at 19 kn
The archive
Photographs
Original postcard and photographic material from the private collection.
The archive
Models
Ship models in 1/1250 scale.
Construction record
Z2 Georg Thiele
- Laid down
- Deutsche Werke Kiel, 25.10.1934
- Launched
- 18.08.1935
- Commissioned
- 27.02.1937
- Fate
- sunk on 13.04.1940
- Cost
- 13,7 Mio Reichsmark