Z18 Hans Lüdemann

Scuttled

Type	Destroyer
Class	Type 1936
War	Second World War
Main guns	5 × 5″ guns

Held the narrows with Georg Thiele at the Second Battle of Narvik, then was scuttled in the Rombaksfjord.

Lot-2275-42: German Warships, WWII. German destroyer Hans Leudemann, Roeder class, starboard view, 1939. Halftone image from Division of Naval Intelligence, Identification and Characteristics Section, June 1943. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2016/05/06). Photo: National Museum of the U.S. Navy, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

5 × single 12.7 cm (5 in) guns
2 × twin 3.7 cm (1.5 in) AA guns
6 × single 2 cm (0.79 in) AA guns
2 × quadruple 53.3 cm (21 in) torpedo tubes
4 × depth charge throwers
60 mines

Builder	AG Weser (Deschimag), Bremen
Laid down	9 September 1936
Launched	1 December 1937
Displacement	2,411 long tons (2,450 t) (standard) 3,415 long tons (3,470 t) (deep load)
Length	123.4 m (404 ft 10 in) (o/a)
Speed	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Complement	323

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

Career

Launched

1 December 1937

German landing at Narvik

Survived

9 April 1940

First Battle of Narvik

Damaged

10 April 1940

Second Battle of Narvik

Scuttled

13 April 1940

In the Rombaksfjord