 Z28, September 1941
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| History | |
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 Nazi Germany | |
| Name | Z28 |
| Ordered | 23 April 1938 |
| Builder | AG Weser (Deschimag), Bremen |
| Yard number | W962 |
| Laid down | 30 November 1939 |
| Launched | 20 August 1940 |
| Completed | 9 August 1941 |
| Fate | Sunk by air attack, 6 March 1945 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type | Type 1936A destroyer |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 127 m (416 ft 8 in) (o/a) |
| Beam | 12 m (39 ft 4 in) |
| Draft | 4.65 m (15 ft 3 in) |
| Installed power |
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| Propulsion | 2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbine sets |
| Speed | 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) |
| Range | 2,500 nmi (4,600 km; 2,900 mi) at 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
| Complement | 332 |
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| Service record | |
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Z28 was one of fifteen Type 1936A destroyers built for the Kriegsmarine (Germany Navy) during World War II. Built as a flotilla leader with fewer guns than her sister ships, she was completed in 1941. The ship spent most of the first few years of her service in Norwegian waters, escorting convoys and laying minefields. Z28 ran aground in early 1943 and spent the rest of the year under repair. The ship briefly returned to Norway at the beginning of 1944, but was transferred to the Baltic shortly afterwards to support minelaying operations in the Gulf of Finland. That was her primary focus through July and then she began escorting German cruisers as they bombarded Soviet troops ashore in addition to German convoys evacuating people from Finland and the Baltic States.
Z28 also bombarded Soviet positions herself on multiple occasions until she was damaged by bombs during one such mission in October. Her repairs took until February 1945 and, not long afterwards, she was sunk in port by British bombers on 6 March with heavy loss of life.
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