German destroyer Z15 Erich Steinbrinck

German destroyer Z15 Erich Steinbrinck
Her sister ship Z5 Paul Jakobi c. 1938
Career (Nazi Germany)
Name:	Z15 Erich Steinbrinck
Namesake:	Erich Steinbrinck
Ordered:	9 January 1935
Builder:	Blohm & Voss, Hamburg
Yard number:	B504
Laid down:	30 May 1935
Launched:	24 September 1936
Completed:	31 May 1938
Fate:	Sold for scrap, 1960s
General characteristics as built
Class & type:	Type 1934A-class destroyer
Displacement:	2,171 metric tons (2,137 long tons)
Length:	119 m (390 ft 5 in) o/a 114 m (374 ft 0 in) w/l
Beam:	11.3 m (37 ft 1 in)
Draft:	4.23 m (13 ft 11 in)
Installed power:	70,000 shp (52,000 kW)
Propulsion:	2 shafts, 2 × Wagner geared steam turbines 6 × water-tube boilers
Speed:	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range:	1,825 nmi (3,380 km; 2,100 mi) at 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph)
Complement:	325
Armament:	5 × 1 - 12.7 cm (5 in) guns 2 × 2 - 3.7 cm (1.5 in) AA guns 6 × 1 - 2 cm (0.79 in) guns 2 × 4 - 53.3 cm (21 in) torpedo tubes 60 mines 32–64 depth charges, 4 throwers and 6 individual racks

Z15 Erich Steinbrinck was a Type 1934A-class destroyer built for the German Navy (German language: Kriegsmarine) in the mid-1930s.

References

• Gröner, Erich (1990). German Warships: 1815–1945. Volume 1: Major Surface Warships. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-790-9. 
• Haarr, Geirr H. (2009). The German Invasion of Norway, April 1940. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-310-9. 
• Koop, Gerhard; Schmolke, Klaus-Peter (2003). German Destroyers of World War II. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-307-1. 
• Rohwer, Jürgen (2005). Chronology of the War at Sea 1939-1945: The Naval History of World War Two (Third Revised ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-119-2. 
• Whitley, M. J. (1991). German Destroyers of World War Two. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-302-8. 

External links

• Kriegsmarine destroyers