German torpedo boat T25
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 Nazi Germany
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| Name: | T-25 |
| Ordered: | 23 April 1938 |
| Builder: | Schichau, Elbing |
| Laid down: | 1940 |
| Launched: | 1 December 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 12 December 1942 |
| Fate: | Sunk, 28 December 1943 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Type 1939 torpedo boat |
| Displacement: | 1,294 long tons (1,315 t) (standard) |
| Length: | 97 m (318 ft 3 in) o/a |
| Beam: | 10 m (32 ft 10 in) |
| Draft: | 3.22 m (10 ft 7 in) |
| Installed power: | 29,000 shp (22,000 kW) |
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| Speed: | 32.5 knots (60.2 km/h; 37.4 mph) |
| Complement: | 206 |
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| Service record | |
| Commanders: | Korvettenkapitän Wirich von Gartzen |
German torpedo-boat T-25 was a torpedo boat (a type of small destroyer popular in European navies) built for the Kriegsmarine during the Second World War. Built by Schichau of Elbing, T-25 was one of fifteen Type 39 torpedo boats, sometimes referred to as the Elbing-class. She was laid down in 1940, launched on 1 December 1941 and commissioned on 12 December 1942. T-25 was assigned to general escort duties and stationed in Occupied France on the Bay of Biscay.
In December 1943 T-25 sailed with her flotilla on Operation Bernau, a mission to escort two German blockade runners to safety. The operation was a failure for the German Navy; along with the Narvik-class destroyer Z27 and her sister Elbing-class torpedo boat, T26, were attacked by the British cruisers HMS Glasgow and Enterprise in the Bay of Biscay and sunk on 28 December 1943. Her survivors were rescued by U-505, which picked up 33 men;U-618, which saved 21 from Z27; and by the Irish merchantman MV Kerlogue, which saved 168, from all three, the day after the attack.
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