Z28

Z28, T7 and K4 escort the passenger ships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau on their way from Cuxhaven to Stavanger.

Z28 and the torpedo boats T7 and T16 escort the auxiliary ships Kärnten, Dithmarschen and the tender Tsingtau from Stavangar to Trondheim.

Z28, Z30, T5 and T7 escorrt the heavy crusier Admiral Scheer and the Troßschiff Dithmarschen from Trondheim to Narvik.

Operation Rösselsprung: In a major operation of the battleship Tirpitz and the heavy cruisers Admiral Scheer, Lützow and Admiral Hipper against the allied convoy PQ17, several destroyers and torpedo boats escort the capital ships: Friedrich Ihn, Hans Lody, Karl Galster, Theodor Riedel, Richard Beitzen, Friedrich Eckoldt, Erich Steinbrinck, Z24, Z27, Z28, Z29, Z30, T7 and T15. The operation is cancelled, but the convoy is heavily attacked by U-boats and the Luftwaffe.

The destroyers Richard Beizen, Z23, Z28, Z29 and Z30 proceed to a mine laying operation at Nowaja Semlja. They are covered by the heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer.

The heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper is escorded by Z23, Z28, T9 and T12 on its way from the Altafjord to the Bogenbucht.

Richard Beitzen, Friedrich Eckoldt, Z23, Z28 and Z29 escort the battleship Tirpitz and the heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer from Narvik to Trondheim.

Z23, Z28 and Z29 escort the heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer from Trondheim back to Germany.