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File:FH 1 Zerstörer.jpg ZH1 (1942)
History
Name ZH1
Builder Rotterdamsche Droogdok Mij , Rotterdam , Netherlands
Laid down 12 October 1938
Launched 12 October 1939
Commissioned 11 October 1942
Fate Scuttled on 9 June 1944
General characteristics [ 1]
Class and type Gerard Callenburgh -class destroyer
Displacement
1628 tons standard
2240 tons full load
Length 106.3 m (348 ft 9 in)
Beam 10.28 m (33 ft 9 in)
Draught 3.5 m (11 ft 6 in)
Propulsion
2 shaft, Parsons geared turbines
3 Yarrow type boilers
45,000 shp
Speed 37.5 knots (69.5 km/h; 43.2 mph)
Range 5,400 nmi (10,000 km) at 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph)
Armament
5 × 120 mm (4.7 in)/45 Mk 8 guns (2 × 2, 1 × 1)
4 × 37 mm (1.5 in)/80 SK C/30 guns (2 × 2)
10 × 20 mm (0.79 in)/65 C/38 guns (2 × 4, 2 × 1)
6 × 533 mm (21.0 in) torpedo tubes (2 × 3)
ZH1 was a Gerard Callenburgh -class destroyer . The boat was laid down as the Dutch destroyer Gerard Callenburgh but while still under construction she was captured during the German invasion of the Netherlands in World War II and commissioned in the Kriegsmarine .
Service history
The ship was laid down as Gerard Callenburgh on 12 October 1938 at the Rotterdamsche Droogdok Mij in Rotterdam and launched on 12 October 1939. While under construction Germany attacked the Netherlands. It was decided to scuttle the ship in Nieuwe Waterweg to prevent it to fall in German hands. The Germans however decided to raise the ship in the summer of 1940 and towed it to Hamburg where she was repaired at the yard of Blohm & Voss .
The ship was commissioned on 11 October 1942 and attached to the 5th destroyer flotilla in the Baltic Sea .[ 2]
31 October 1943 ZH1 and Z27 was sent to France .While passing through the English Channel the ship came under attack by British shore batteries.[ 2]
In March 1944 ZH1 , Z23 and the torpedo boats T27 and T29 escorted the Japanese submarine I-129 to Lorient after meeting her in the Bay of Biscay . Later that month she performed convoy duties North of Brest .[ 2]
On 9 June 1944 the ship and other German destroyers engaged an Allied force near Île de Batz in what became known as the Battle of Ushant . In the battle she was damaged to the point that the commander gave the order to scuttle her. 36 of her crew perished with the ship.[ 2] [ 3]
References
Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in May 1940
Shipwrecks
1 May: Arlington , Dronning Maud , Uller
3 May: HMS Afridi , Bison
4 May: ORP Grom
5 May: Maianbar
8 May: Doris
10 May: Nordnorge , Goslar
11 May: Antilla
12 May: HMCS Gate Vessel 1
14 May: HNLMS Abraham van der Hulst , Batterijschip Ijmuiden , HNLMS Gerard Callenburgh , HNLMS Johan Maurits van Nassau , Jan Pieterszoon Coen , HNLMS O 8 , HNLMS O 11 , HNLMS O 12 , HNLMS O 25 , HNLMS O 26 , HNLMS O 27 , HNLMS Pieter Florisz
15 May: HMS Valentine
16 May: Chrobry
17 May: HNLMS Noordbrabant
18 May: HMS Effingham , Sirius
19 May: Belgica , HMS Whitley
21 May: L'Adroit
23 May: Jaguar , Orage
24 May: Chacal , HMS Wessex
25 May: ORP Orzeł
26 May: HMS Curlew
27 May: Cap Tafelneh
28 May: Abukir
29 May: HMS Grafton , HMS Grenade , Lorina , Mona's Queen , HMS Wakeful
30 May: Fenella , Bourrasque , HMS King Orry , Normannia
31 May: Siroco , U-13
Unkmnow date: Munich
Other incidents
Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in June 1944
Shipwrecks
1 Jun: USS Herring
3 Jun: U-477 , WBS 2 Coburg
5 Jun: V 622 Almuth , USS Osprey
6 Jun: USS Corry , USS LCI(L)-93 , Minazuki , USS PC-1261 , HNoMS Svenner , V 421 Rauzan , HMS Wrestler
7 Jun: HMS Centurion , Empire Defiance , Hayanami , USS Susan B. Anthony , USS Tide , U-629 , U-955
8 Jun: Audacious , Harusame , James Iredell , Kazagumo , HMS Lawford , USS Rich , U-373 , U-441 , U-970 , West Grama
9 Jun: Courbet , Dover Hill , HMS Durban , Empire Bunting , Empire Flamingo , Matsukaze , USS Meredith , HNLMS Sumatra , Tanikaze , Z32 , ZH1
10 Jun: USS Glennon , Innsbruck , Mistral , Ro-111 , U-821
11 Jun: USS Partridge , Ro-42 , U-980
12 Jun: Kainan Maru , HMS Sickle , U-490 , V 206 Otto Bröhan , V 212 Friedrich Busse
13 Jun: HMS Boadicea , I-33 , Ro-36 , U-715
14 Jun: USS Golet
15 Jun: HMS Blackwood , M 507 , PA 1 , PA 2 , Shiratsuyu , U-860 , U-987 , V 202 Franz Westermann
16 Jun: I-6 , Ro-44 , U-998
17 Jun: Ro-114 , Ro-117
18 Jun: Albert C. Field , U-767
19 Jun: I-184 , Shōkaku , Taihō
20 Jun: Hiyō , HMAS Matafele
21 Jun: Bolzano , HMS Fury
22 Jun: Eurydice , I-185 , Sirène
24 Jun: Derrycunihy , I-52 , U-971 , U-1225
25 Jun: U-269
26 Jun: Aquileia , U-317 , U-719 , Harugiku Maru
27 Jun: Kizugawa Maru
28 Jun: V 213 Claus Bolten , Kondor , Nerissa
29 Jun: Toyama Maru , Tsugaru , U-988 , USS Valor
30 Jun: SS Nikkin Maru , U-478 , V 422 Kergroise
Unknown date: Bosna , USS LCT-209 , U-740
Other incidents