![]() Luchs underway, 1934
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History | |
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Name | Luchs |
Namesake | Lynx |
Builder | Reichsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven |
Yard number | 111 |
Laid down | 2 April 1927 |
Launched | 15 March 1928 |
Commissioned | 15 April 1929 |
Fate | Torpedoed, 26 July 1940 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | Type 24 torpedo boat |
Displacement | |
Length | 92.6 m (303 ft 10 in) (o/a) |
Beam | 8.65 m (28 ft 5 in) |
Draft | 3.52 m (11 ft 7 in) |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph) |
Range | 1,997 nmi (3,698 km; 2,298 mi) at 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
Complement | 129 |
Armament |
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Luchs was the fourth of six Type 24 torpedo boats built for the German Navy (initially called the Reichsmarine and then renamed as the Kriegsmarine in 1935) during the 1920s. The boat made multiple non-intervention patrols during the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s. During World War II, she played a minor role in the Battle of Kristiansand during the Norwegian Campaign of 1940. Luchs was sunk in Norwegian waters in July by either a British submarine or a floating mine.