German torpedo boat T30

Sister ship T35 in US service, August 1945
History
Nazi Germany
Name	T30
Ordered	10 November 1939
Builder	Schichau, Elbing, East Prussia
Yard number	1489
Laid down	10 April 1942
Launched	13 March 1943
Completed	24 October 1943
Fate	Sunk by mine, 18 August 1944
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Type 39 torpedo boat
Displacement	1,294 t (1,274 long tons) (standard) 1,754 t (1,726 long tons) (deep load)
Length	102.5 m (336 ft 3 in) o/a
Beam	10 m (32 ft 10 in)
Draft	3.22 m (10 ft 7 in)
Installed power	4 × water-tube boilers 32,000 shp (24,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 × shafts 2 × geared steam turbine sets
Speed	33.5 knots (62.0 km/h; 38.6 mph)
Range	2,400 nmi (4,400 km; 2,800 mi) at 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph)
Complement	206
Sensors and processing systems	S-Gerät sonar FuMO 21 radar
Armament	4 × single 10.5 cm (4.1 in) guns 2 × twin 3.7 cm (1.5 in) AA guns 1 × quadruple, 2 × single 2 cm (0.8 in) AA guns 2 × triple 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes 30–60 mines 4 × depth charge launchers

The German torpedo boat T30 was one of fifteen Type 39 torpedo boats built for the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) during World War II. Completed in late 1943, the boat was assigned to support German operations in the Baltic Sea. She laid minefields in the Gulf of Finland, off the Estonian coast, in mid-April, before she was tasked to support Finnish forces in June. The following month, T30 helped to sink a Soviet patrol boat. After a navigational error caused her to enter a German minefield as she was preparing to lay one herself in August, the boat sank after striking several mines with the loss of 137 crewmen.