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Nazi Germany | |
Name | Z22 Anton Schmitt |
Namesake | Anton Schmitt |
Ordered | 6 January 1936 |
Builder | AG Weser (Deschimag), Bremen |
Yard number | 924 |
Laid down | 3 January 1938 |
Launched | 20 September 1938 |
Commissioned | 24 September 1939 |
Fate | Sunk in the First Battle of Narvik, 10 April 1940 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Type 1936 destroyer |
Displacement | |
Length | 125.1 m (410 ft 5 in) (o/a) |
Beam | 11.8 m (38 ft 9 in) |
Draft | 4.5 m (14 ft 9 in) |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) |
Range | 2,050 nmi (3,800 km; 2,360 mi) at 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
Complement | 323 |
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Z22 Anton Schmitt was one of six Type 1936 destroyers built for the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) in the late 1930s. Completed after the beginning of World War II in September 1939, she helped to lay an offensive minefield off the English coast that claimed one small ship. During the German invasion of Norway in April 1940, the ship was tasked to attack Narvik and was sunk during the First Naval Battle of Narvik on 10 April.