Luchs

Sunk

Type	Torpedo boat
Class	Type 24
War	Second World War
Main guns	3 × 4.1″ guns

With Karlsruhe at Kristiansand in April 1940. Sunk off Norway on 26 July 1940 while escorting Gneisenau, by a British submarine or a drifting mine.

For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Torpedoboot "Luchs" Torpedoboot "Luchs" [Torpedoboote Typ 24, "Raubtier-Klasse".- "Luchs" (LU) auf See. Ansicht der Steuerbordseite] Photo: Urbahns, Gerd, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

3 × single 10.5 cm (4.1 in) guns
2 × triple 500 mm (19.7 in) torpedo tubes
30 mines

Builder	Reichsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven
Laid down	2 April 1927
Launched	15 March 1928
Commissioned	15 April 1929
Displacement	932 long tons (947 t) (standard) 1,319 long tons (1,340 t) (deep load)
Length	92.6 m (303 ft 10 in) (o/a)
Speed	34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Complement	129

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

15 March 1928

Sinking of Karlsruhe

Survived

9 April 1940

Fate

Sunk

Torpedoed, 26 July 1940