D.K.M. Brummer
1940
(Neptun 1052)
- Class: Brummer - 1 gunnery training ship of 1933
- Displacement: 3,010 tons
- Dimensions: 375 x 45 x 14 ft
- Machinery: Steam geared turbines, twin shafts, 10,150shp = 23 knots
- Armament: 8-4.1in (4x2), 8-37mm AA guns; 450 mines
- Complement: 226 + 138 pupils
- Builder: Deschimag, Bremen
- Laid Dow: 1934
- Launched: 29 May 1935
- Completed: 8 Feb 1936
- Service: Designed as anti-aircraft artillery training cruiser, but with significant minelaying capability. Original armament was 4-4.1in, 2-88mm. Participated in invasion of Poland in 1939, laying mines off the Polish coast. Took part in Operation Weserübung, the invasion of Norway, as command ship of a transport squadron. Torpedoed in the Kattegat 14 Apr 1940 by British submarine HMS Sterlet and sank the following day.
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