German torpedo boat Albatros
Albatros was the fourth of six Type 23 torpedo boats built for the German Navy. Completed in 1927, she often served as a flagship of torpedo boat units. She made multiple non-intervention patrols during the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s. At the beginning of World War II in 1939, she helped to lay minefields and made anti-shipping patrols before participating in Operation Weserübung, the German invasion of Norway in April 1940. She ran aground and was wrecked while maneuvering in an attempt to avoid Norwegian coastal artillery in May 1940.
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Albatros was the fourth of six Type 23 torpedo boats built for the German Navy. Completed in 1927, Albatros often served as a flagship of torpedo boat units. She made multiple non-intervention patrols during the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s. At the beginning of World War II in 1939, she helped to lay minefields and made anti-shipping patrols before participating in Operation Weserübung, the German invasion of Norway in April 1940. She ran aground and was wrecked while maneuvering in an attempt to avoid Norwegian coastal artillery in May 1940. The Type 23s mounted three 10.5-centimeter SK L45 guns, one forward and two aft of the superstructure; the aft superfiring gun was on an open mount while the others were protected by gun shields. They carried six rotating 500-millimeter torpedo tubes in two triple mounts amidships and could also carry up to 30 mines. The ships had a beam of 8. 25 meters, and a mean draft of 3.
65 m. They displaced 923 long tons at standard load and 1,290 long tons at deep load. The pair of Schichau geared steam turbine sets, each driving one propeller, were designed to produce 23,000 shaft horsepower using steam from three water-tube boilers, which propelled the ship at 33 knots. The effective range proved to be only 1,800 nmi at that speed. Their crews consisted of 4 officers and 116 sailors, their crews consisted of 4 officers and 4 sailors. The ship was decommissioned on 7 December 1932 and replaced as flagship of the 4th Torpedo Boat Half-Flotilla, which also consisted of her sister ships Falke, Greif and Möwe. The half-flotilla was under the command of Korvettenkapitän Karl Dönitz, who later became grand admiral of the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany. On 1 October 1933, the Type 23 was put back into service, replacing the pre-war T151 in the 2ndnde Torpede Half- flotilla based at Swinemünde-Coba.
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