- The
German destroyer Z4
Richard Beitzen was one of four Type 1934
destroyers built for the
German Navy (Kriegsmarine)
during the mid-1930s. Completed...
-
invasion of
Poland while her
sister ships Z2
Georg Thiele and Z4
Richard Beitzen briefly blockaded the
Polish coast.
Later that month, the
three sisters...
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Admiral Hipper, Lützow, and the
destroyers Friedrich Eckoldt,
Richard Beitzen,
Theodor Riedel, Z29, Z30 and Z31.
Convoy JW 51B
sailed from Loch Ewe on...
- be
escorted back to
Germany by
Beitzen. This
minefield only
claimed one
fishing trawler of 251 tons. Eckoldt,
Beitzen and Max
Schultz laid 110 magnetic...
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Admiral Scheer and the
destroyers Z24, Z27, Z28, Z29, Z30 and Z4
Richard Beitzen coming from
Narvik in
order to
avoid British reconnaissance, the German...
- (1937-1940) Z2
Georg Thiele (1937-1940) Z3 Max
Schultz (1937-1940) Z4
Richard Beitzen (1937-1949)
Survey ship
Meteor (1924–1945) Radio-controlled
target ship...
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Admiral Scheer, the
heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, and the
destroyers Z4
Richard Beitzen, Z5 Paul Jakobi, Z25, Z7
Hermann Schoemann, and Z14
Friedrich Ihn steamed...
- mine laid by the
newly launched German U-boat U-75 (commanded by Kurt
Beitzen) and sank west of the
Orkney Islands.
Recent research has set the death...
- (Polar Night); the
battleship was
escorted by the
destroyers Z4
Richard Beitzen, Z5 Paul Jakobi, Z8
Bruno Heinemann and Z29 for the voyage. The Norwegian...
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comprised the
destroyers Friedrich Eckoldt (flotilla leader),
Richard Beitzen,
Erich Koellner,
Theodor Riedel, Max
Schultz and
Leberecht Ma****. On 21...