Torpedoboot T7

Together with the torpedo boats Falke, Kondor, Jaguar, T2 and T8, the T7 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.

Together with the destroyers Paul Jakobi and Karl Galster and the torpedo boats Falke, Iltis, Jaguar, Kondor and T5, the T7 escorts the mine layers Corba, Roland and Tanneberg while laying the mine field SW2. The mine layers carry 600 mines.

Mine laying operation SW3. Together with the destroyers Paul Jakobi, Karl Galster and Erich Steinbrinck and the torpedo boats Greif, Iltis, Jaguar, T5, T6 and T8 the T7 escorts the mine layers Corba, Roland and Tannenberg. The mine layers carry about 600 mines. After the operation, the boat sails to Cherbourg.

The 2. T-Flottilla (T5 -T8) excecutes a mine laying operation near Dover.

The 2. T-Flottilla (T5 -T8) excecutes another mine laying operation near Dover.

The 2. T-Flottilla (T5 -T8) excecutes another mine laying operation near Dover, the ships are engaged in a battle with smaller British ships.

Transferred to Wilhelmshaven, later sent to the Baltic Sea.

T6, T7, T8 and T10 escort the Panzerschiff Admiral Scheer from Brunsbüttel to Bergen.

Operation of the 1st and 2nd torpedo boat flotilla with T1, T4, T6, T7, T8, T9 and T10 against coastal shipping at the British east coast. The operation is cancelled after T6 is sunk after a mine hit near Aberdeen.

The torpedo boats Falke, Greif, Seeadler, T1, T7, T9, T10 and T12 escort the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau during their attempt to break into the North Atlantic. The operation is aborted.

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

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.

Together with the light cruisers Emden and Leipzig, the torpedo boats T7, T8 and T11 attack coastal batteries at Sworbe.

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

T4, T7 and T12 are sent to Cherbourg.

T4, T7 and T12 escort the Auxiliary Cruiser Komet to Germany. During a British MTB attack, two boats are set on fire by T7 and T12.

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

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.

The heavy cruiser Lützow is escorted by Richard Beitzen, Z27, Z29 and T7 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.

Covered by the destroyers Friedrich Ihn and Z24 and the torpedo boats T7 and T15 the heavy cruiser Lützow transfers to Trondheim.

T7, T9, T12 and T15 escort the heavy cruiser Lützow on its way back to Germany.