Profile drawing of Torpedoboot T2
84,30 mOverall length
1088 tMaximum displacement
35,0 knMaximum speed
119Complement

Design and service

The story of Torpedoboot T2

Torpedoboot T2 of the Torpedoboot 1935 Class As part of the 1st Torpedoboot Flotilla, the ship got fully operational at the end of 1940. After operations near Jutland and mining operations in the North Sea, T2 was sent to France in September 1940 for a short time where it was damaged during the transit. After a short visit in Germany, the 1st Torpedoboot Flotilla was relocated to Norway and disband in August 1941, T2 was transferred to the 2nd Torpedoboot Flotilla.

After operations in Norway, some of those ships supported the advance of German troops during the invasion of the Soviet union and some participated in Operation Cerberus in 1942. The remaining ships were was part of the torpedo training school in the Baltic Sea until mid 1943. From 1944, the 2nd Torpedoboot Flotilla was used for escort duties in the Baltic Sea.

Badly damaged by American Bombs on 29 July 1944 in Bremen's Deschimag shipyard, T2 was raised on 27 September 1944 and towed to Elbing and Cuxhaven for repairs. Broken down at Schichau shipyard in 1946.

Operational history

Service timeline

T2 is commissioned.

Together with the torpedo boats Falke, Kondor, Jaguar, T7 and T8, the T2 escorts the mine layers Cobra, Roland and Brumer while laying the mine field SW1. The mine layers carry over 600 mines.

The torpedo boats T2, T7 and T8 escort the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper near Stavanger.

The destroyer Karl Galster and the torpedo boats Falke, Greif, Ilits, Jaguar, Kondor, T1, T2 and T3 excecute a mine laying operation in the south western North Sea.

Seeadler, Iltis, T1, T2 and T3 escort the mine layers Brummer, Skagerak and Stralsund to Le Havre.

Escorted by the torpedo boats Kondor and T2, the Theodor Riedel is transferred to Norway. The destroyer is damaged after running agound.

T2, T4, T5, T7, T8, T11 and T12 are attached to newly formed 2nd Torpedo Boat Flotilla.

Escorted by the torpedo boats T2 and T11, Hermann Schoemann returns to Germany.

T2, T5, T8 and T11 operate at the coast of Ösel and attack Soviet coastal batteries.

The destroyers Z25, Z26 and Z27 and the torpedo boats T2, T5, T7, T8 and T11 are attached to the Baltic fleet to prevent an escape of Soviet ships into the Baltic Sea.

The torpedo boats T2, T5, T7 and T8 escort the light cruiser Köln during the operations at Dagö.

T2, T4, T7, T12 and T14 escort the auxiliary cruiser Thor from Wilhelmshaven to Brest. T2 and T4 also escort the ship to La Rochelle.

T2, T4, T5, T11 and T12 are transferred from St. Nazaire to Brest.

While doing trials in the Biscay, the battleship Scharnhorst is escorted by T2, T4, T5, T11 and T12.

Torpedoboats T2, T5, T11 and T12 escort the battleship Scharnhorst during trials in the Biscay.

T2, T5, T11 and T12 escort the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen during engine tests und gunnery drills in the Biscay.

The afterward torpedo tubes are replacd with a quadruple 2 cm anit-aircraft guns.

Torpedo boats T2, T4, T5, T11 and T12 are relocated to Le Havre.

Operation "Cerberus": On board of Z29, the "Füher der Zerstöer" and the destroyers Richard Beitzen, Paul Jakobi, Hermann Schoemann, Friedrich Ihn, Z25 and the torpedo boats T2, T4, T4, T11, T13, T15, T16, T17 Seeadler, Kondor, Jaguar, Falke and iescort the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen through the Channel from Brest ot Germany.

At a glance

Technical profile

Dimensions, armament, protection and performance.

Dimensions

Size (Max)
1088 t
Length (Total)
84,30 m
Length (Waterline)
82,16 m
Beam
8,62 m
Draft
2,94 m
Crew
119

Armament

10,5 cm L/45 C/32
1
4 cm Bofors
1 (since 1944)
3,7 cm
2 (since 1944)
2 cm MG L/65 C/39
5-12 (12 since 1944)
53,3 cm Torpedo tubes
6 (3 since 1944)
Mines
30

Machinery

Shafts
2
Turbines
2
Type
Wagner Geared Turbines

Performance

Total Performance
31000 shp
Speed
35,0 kn
Range
1070 sm at 19 kn

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Neptun 1088 Torpedoboot T2
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Construction record

Torpedoboot T2

Laid down
F. Schichau Elbing, 14.11.1936
Launched
07.04.1938
Commissioned
09.12.1939
Fate
scrapped 1946
Cost
8,8 Mio Reichsmark