[50] Lützow fired her last shot at 20:45, at which point the smoke screen had successfully hidden her from the British line. Lützow Histoire opérationnelle, sur german-navy.de, 25 juin 2003. The ship fired semi-armor-piercing (SAP) shells, unlike the other German battlecruisers, which had loaded armor-piercing (AP) shells instead. [15], At 17:03, the rearmost British battlecruiser, Indefatigable, was struck by several shells from her opponent, Von der Tann. Hipper initially hesitated, believing the ship was the German cruiser Rostock, but at 19:16, Kapitän zur See (KzS) Harder, Lützow's commanding officer, ordered his ships' guns to fire. Onslow was hit three times by Lützow's secondary battery and was forced to withdraw. Witnesses reported at least five shells from two salvos hit the ship, which caused an intense explosion that ripped the Queen Mary in half. Lützow was a heavy cruiser of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, the fifth and final member of the Admiral Hipper class, but was never completed.The ship was laid down in August 1937 and launched in July 1939, after which the Soviet Union requested to purchase the ship. [24] During this period, Princess Royal opened fire on Lützow and scored two hits, the first of which exploded between the forward turrets and the second struck the belt. Shortly thereafter, Lützow scored several more hits on Lion, though without serious damage being done. She was designed to displace 26,600 t (26,200 long tons) normally and she reached 26,741 t (26,319 long tons) at full load. [9], At 04:50 on 25 April, the German battlecruisers were approaching Lowestoft when the light cruisers Rostock and Elbing, which had been covering the southern flank, spotted the light cruisers and destroyers of Commodore Reginald Tyrwhitt's Harwich Force. The ship was powered by four Parsons steam turbines that drove four screw propellers. Ordered as a replacement for the old protected cruiser Kaiserin Augusta, Lützow was launched on 29 November 1913, but not completed until 1916. Powered by ... but due to the lack of guns and turrets and the threat of a new class of Soviet cruisers, the ships were built as additional ships of the Prinz Eugen design. Leden van de Duitse Kriegsmarine op een schip bij Napels, … German cruiser Lützow (1939) Lützow was a heavy cruiser of the German Kriegsmarine, the fifth and final member of the Admiral Hipper class, but was never completed. Une fois ces réparations effectuées, le navire a été rebaptisé Tallinn et utilisé dans la contre-offensive soviétique autour de Léningrad en 1944. While on trials on 25 October, Lützow's port low-pressure turbine was badly damaged. [36] Simultaneously, the British III and IV Light Cruiser Squadrons began a torpedo attack on the German line; while advancing to torpedo range, they smothered Wiesbaden with fire from their main guns. She was named in honor of the Prussian general Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow who fought in the Napoleonic Wars. The torpedo boat V28 took Boedicker to Lützow. Ordered as a replacement for the old protected cruiser Kaiserin Augusta, Lützow was launched on 29 November 1913, but not completed until 1916. SMS Lützow[a] was the second Derfflinger-class battlecruiser built by the German Kaiserliche Marine (English: Imperial Navy) before World War I. L'URSS l'a acheté en février 1940 et son transfert a été achevé le 15 avril de la même année. [37] During the turn to the northeast, the British destroyers Onslow and Acasta approached to launch torpedoes at Lützow, though without success. [44] He had not yet made a decision when his leading battleships encountered the main body of the Grand Fleet. The leading British ships spotted Lützow and Derfflinger, and began firing on them. [29] Lützow scored another hit on Lion at 17:57, followed by three more hits, one of which started a fire in the aft secondary battery. In the span of three minutes, Lützow had fired four more salvos, alternating between the four forward and four aft guns, and had struck with the last one at 16:51. [55] The ship was capable of 7 knots (13 km/h; 8.1 mph) up until around 00:45 when she began taking on more water. The armament suite was rounded out with four 60 cm (24 in) torpedo tubes, all placed in the hull, below the waterline. He 60 PzSchiff Deutschland.tif 1,504 × 1,073; 6.16 MB. Source: World War 2 album The German Kriegsmarine, Lützow Operational History, Heavy Cruiser, Lützow, Schwerer Kreuzer 1939-1950, Admiral Hipper class Several ships can be described as the German cruiser Lützow : SMS Lützow, launched in 1913, battlecruiser which was scuttled after the battle of Jutland German cruiser Lützow (1939), launched in 1939, sold incomplete to the Soviet Union German cruiser Lützow (1940), launched in 1931 as Deutschland she was renamed Lützow in 1940 [33] During the engagements between the combined German fleet and the British 1st Battlecruiser and 5th Battle Squadrons, Lützow had both of her wireless transmitters damaged; after that point, the only method of communication between ships was via searchlight. The battlecruiser's crew attempted to patch the shell holes three times, but as the flooding worsened and the draft increased, water increasingly washed over the deck and inhibited progress on the repair work. Lützow was a sister ship to Derfflinger from which she differed slightly in … [55] The position of the wreck is estimated to be .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}56°15′N 5°53′E / 56.250°N 5.883°E / 56.250; 5.883. As the British battlecruisers began to turn away, Seydlitz and Derfflinger were able to concentrate their fire on Queen Mary. Scheer had been considering retiring his forces before darkness exposed his ships to torpedo boat attack. [19] Eight minutes later, Lion scored the first hit on Lützow; a salvo from the British ship struck the battlecruiser on her forecastle, but no major damage was done. Lützow was commissioned on 8 August 1915, but did not join I Scouting Group until 20 March due to engine damage during trials. The ship's gunners aimed their initial salvo at a range of 16,800 yards (15,400 m), well over their intended target. Thank you! A second sweep followed two days later, also to the Amrun Bank. One month later, the ship was heavily engaged during the Battle of Jutland, on 31 May–1 June. [63], In 2015, the survey ship HMS Echo conducted an exploration of the area while laying a tide gauge. The quarry was the Allied convoy JW51B on its way to deliver supplies to the USSR and protected by now fewer than six British destroyers. Bibliographie . [34] Later, at 19:05, she scored one hit on Lion. Seydlitz, the flagship, followed by Derfflinger, Lützow, Moltke, and Von der Tann left the Jade Estuary at 10:55 on 24 April, and were supported by a screening force of six light cruisers and two torpedo boat flotillas. Water began to enter the forward generator compartments, which forced the crew to work by candlelight. In the course of the first nineteen minutes of the battle, Lützow had fired thirty-one salvos at Lion, scoring six hits, forcing the latter to shear out of line temporarily. V45 and G37 began laying a smoke screen between the battered ship and the British line, but at 20:15, before it was finished, Lützow was struck in quick succession by four heavy-caliber shells. Lützow was a heavy cruiser of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, the fifth and final member of the Admiral Hipper class, but was never completed. In the span of eight minutes, Invincible scored eight hits on Lützow; these hits were mainly concentrated in the ship's bow and were the primary cause of the flooding that would eventually cause her to sink. [58] The crew attempted to reverse direction and steam backwards, but this had to be abandoned when the bow became so submerged that the propellers were pulled partially out of the water; forward draft had increased to over 17 meters. If he chose to use his dreadnoughts and battlecruisers to cover their retreat, he would have subjected his strongest ships to overwhelming British fire. While serving as the squadron flagship, her crew was augmented by an additional 14 officers and 62 enlisted men in the commander's staff. [39] One salvo penetrated the ship's ammunition magazines and, in a massive explosion, destroyed the cruiser. Only do this if these links relate to the wiki subject. German cruiser Lützow (1939) Lützow was a heavy cruiser of Nazi Germany 's Kriegsmarine, the fifth and final member of the Admiral Hipper class, but was never completed. [6], The ship's first and only commander was Kapitän zur See Victor Harder. Add Image Please replace links to Wikipedia in this article with links to this wiki. This was after most of the major actions conducted by the German battlecruiser force had taken place. Fragments of the Lützow, a German World War Two heavy cruiser which was sunk by the famous British Dambusters squadron in 1945, have been raised from the bottom of a shipping channel in the Szczecin Lagoon. [33] The ship continued to engage the British battlecruisers as they steamed north toward the Grand Fleet, but had no success during this period. German cruiser Lützow in Kaiserfahrt canal on 25 April 1945.jpg 653 × 594; 197 KB. By 16:00, Seydlitz was clear of imminent danger, so the ship stopped to allow Boedicker to disembark. Lützow can refer to:. [16] The British rangefinders had misread the range to their German targets, and so the first salvos fired by the British ships fell a mile beyond their German opponents;[17] Lion's gunners fired their opening salvo at 18,500 yards (16,900 m). Rebaptisé Petropavlovsk en septembre 1940, les travaux sur le navire ont été poursuivis à Léningrad. Lützow was so low in the water by 01:30 that water began to flood the forward boiler room. [3], Lützow was ordered as Ersatz Kaiserin Augusta, to replace the elderly protected cruiser Kaiserin Augusta, which was by then 20 years old. German heavy cruiser “Lützow” during inspection by the Admissions Committee of the Baltic Fleet. The British cruisers turned toward Lützow and came under fire from both German cruisers. Scheer hoped that in the foggy darkness, Lützow could evade detection and successfully return to a German port. [3], Lützow was protected by an armor belt that was 300 mm (11.8 in) thick in the central part of the ship where it protected the ammunition magazines and propulsion machinery spaces. An hour and a half later, the High Seas Fleet—under the command of Admiral Scheer—left the Jade with 16 dreadnoughts. [47] By 20:00, flooding in the forward part of the ship had reached the magazine for the forward turret. [54] By 21:30, the ship was settling deeper into the sea. [40][g], While Lützow and the rest of the fleet were concentrating on Defence, Lion scored two hits on Hipper's flagship, causing a serious fire. [8] The heavy units of the High Seas Fleet sailed at 13:40, with the objective to provide distant support for Boedicker's ships. [42] From this point onward, Lützow came under no further fire from the British battlecruisers, though she was flooding badly from two of the hits from Invincible that had struck below the waterline. Konteradmiral Franz von Hipper, the commander of I Scouting Group, was away on sick leave, so the German ships were under the command of Boedicker. G38 fired two torpedoes into the ship, and two minutes later she disappeared below the waves. selon les recommandations des projets correspondants. Deutschland (later re-named Lützow), was the lead ship of her class that served in the German Kriegsmarine before and during World War II. At 16:00, Hipper ordered the signal "Distribution of fire from left" be hoisted on Lützow. Encore inachevé lorsque l'Allemagne envahit l'Union soviétique en juin 1941, le navire a brièvement pris part à la défense de Léningrad en fournissant un soutien d'artillerie. "[64], Coordinates: 56°15′N 5°53′E / 56.250°N 5.883°E / 56.250; 5.883, Battlecruiser of the German Imperial Navy, In Imperial German Navy gun nomenclature, "SK" (, German ships were ordered under provisional names; new additions to the fleet were given a letter designation, while those ordered as replacements for older vessels were named ", The times mentioned in this section are in, Ammunition magazines on warships were equipped with. She also carried eight 8.8 cm SK L/45 quick-firing guns in anti-aircraft mounts. Due to reports of British submarines and torpedo attacks, Boedicker broke off the chase and turned back east towards the High Seas Fleet. Steam was provided by eighteen naval boilers, fourteen of which burned coal, the other four burning fuel oil. [56] At times, the ship had to slow down to as little as 3 knots (5.6 km/h; 3.5 mph) to reduce pressure on the rear bulkhead in the torpedo flat. After their British counterparts had begun installing 34.3 cm (13.5 in) guns in their battlecruisers, senior officers in the German naval command came to the conclusion that an increase in caliber from 28 cm (11 in) to 30.5 cm (12.0 in) would be necessary. These were finished on 19 February; Lützow was assigned to I Scouting Group on 20 March, and arrived at her new unit four days later. [3], Lützow's armament consisted of a main battery of eight 30.5 cm SK L/50 guns in four gun turrets,[b] mounted in superfiring pairs fore and aft of the central superstructure. While on this operation, a British submarine attempted to torpedo Lützow without success. [60] By 02:45 Lützow was submerged up to her bridge. [35], Shortly after 19:00, the German cruiser Wiesbaden had become disabled by a shell from the battlecruiser Invincible; the German battlecruisers made a 16-point turn to the northeast and made for the crippled cruiser at high speed. This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. Date: May 1945. A full circle has 32 points, each equal to 11.25 degrees; a 16-point turn would be a reversal of direction. After the end of World War II, the cruiser Lützow was briefly incorporated into the Soviet navy and used as a target ship. Lützow was a sister ship to Derfflinger from which she differed slightly in that she was armed with an additional pair of 15 cm (5.9 inch) secondary guns and had an additional watertight compartment in her hull. [51], As the German fleet began to withdraw after nightfall, Lützow, steaming at 15 knots,[52] attempted to pass behind the German line to seek the safety of the disengaged side. She took part in only one bombardment operation: the Bombardment of Yarmouth and Lowestoft on 24–25 April 1916, after which she became Admiral Franz von Hipper's flagship. The resulting explosion would have likely destroyed the ship if the ammunition magazine had not been flooded. The ships were accompanied by II Scouting Group, under the command of Rear Admiral Boedicker, composed of the four light cruisers Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, Pillau, and Elbing. [23] Lützow's gunnery officer, Günther Paschen, later regretted the decision to fire SAP shells, believing that had Lützow fired AP rounds, she would have destroyed Lion during this action. German cruiser Deutschland, renamed Lützow, launched in 1939 This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. [62] The ship's crew suffered 115 men killed and another 50 wounded, second only to Derfflinger, which lost 157 men killed and 26 wounded. La dernière modification de cette page a été faite le 3 février 2021 à 21:50. [46], The other battlecruisers followed the move, but Lützow had lost speed and was unable to keep up. Lützow. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to … In addition, the battlecruiser Gneisenau and the cruiser Lützow were heavily damaged, at least a dozen destroyers had been sunk or damaged, and as many as 14 supply vessels had been lost. SMS Lützow [lower-alpha 1] was the second Derfflinger-class battlecruiser built by the German Kaiserliche Marine (English: Imperial Navy) before World War I.Ordered as a replacement for the old protected cruiser Kaiserin Augusta, Lützow was launched on 29 November 1913, but not completed until 1916. In the span of less than five minutes, Defence was struck by several heavy-caliber shells from the German ships. [38] At 19:15, the German battlecruisers spotted the British armored cruiser Defence, which had joined the attack on Wiesbaden. Heinrich Gebhardt mit Hindenburg, 1931.jpg 1,205 × 726; 162 KB. [41] By 19:24, the 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron had formed up with Beatty's remaining battlecruisers ahead of the German line. Burnett quickly decided to withdraw in the face of superior German firepower; his ships were armed with 6 in (150 mm) guns, while Admiral Hipper carried 20.3 cm (8.0 in) guns, and Lützow had 28 cm (11 in) guns. The ship was laid down in August 1937 and launched in July 1939, after which the Soviet Union requested to purchase the ship. The Lützow was a heavy cruiser of Nazi Germany 's Kriegsmarine, the fifth and final member of the Admiral Hipper class, but was never completed. German cruiser Lützow and a destroyer in Norway on 11 June 1942.jpg 4,802 × 4,130; 9.3 MB. Laid down in 1937 and launched in 1939, she was sold in an incomplete state to the Soviet Union in 1940, missing half of her 8″ guns and most of her superstructure. [5] Repairs were conducted in Kiel until late January 1916, after which the ship underwent further trials. G39 came alongside and took Hipper and his staff aboard, in order to transfer him to one of the other battlecruisers. Le SMS Lützow porte le nom d'Adolf von Lützow, qui leva un corps franc de volontaires contre Napoléon I er en 1813. [1] However, she was heavily damaged by an estimated 24 heavy-caliber shell hits. Critically, the forward main pumps were no longer usable, as the control rods had jammed. [26], In an attempt to regroup his ships, Admiral Beatty sought to turn his ships away by 2 degrees while the Queen Elizabeth-class battleships of the 5th Battle Squadron arrived on the scene and provided covering fire. Lützow was a sister ship to Derfflinger from which she differed slightly in that she was armed with an additional pair of 15 cm (5.9 inch) secondary guns and had an additional watertight compart… [18], Lützow scored a second hit a minute later at 16:52. [2], Lützow was 210.4 m (690 ft 3 in) long overall and had a beam of 29 m (95 ft 2 in) and a draft of 9.2 m (30 ft 2 in) forward and 9.56 m (31 ft 4 in) aft. This development made it impossible for Scheer to retreat, for doing so would have sacrificed the slower pre-dreadnought battleships of II Battle Squadron. Konteradmiral (Rear Admiral) Friedrich Boedicker, the deputy commander of I Scouting Group, temporarily raised his flag aboard the ship from 29 March to 11 April. Originally named Deutschland, the Lützow was one of three armoured ships – the so-called “pocket battleships” – laid down between 1928 and 1931.Deutschland was the first of the class, being launched in May 1931 and completed in April 1933. The German Kriegsmarine, Lützow Information, Heavy Cruiser, Lützow, Schwerer Kreuzer 1939-1950, Admiral Hipper class The British Admiralty was made aware of the German sortie through the interception of German wireless signals, and deployed the Grand Fleet at 15:50. In the process, a single 6 in shell from one of the shore batteries struck Moltke, but the ship sustained no significant damage. [25] At 17:24, Lützow again opened fire at Lion and scored three more hits in the span of thirty seconds. [28] At 17:34, Lützow launched a torpedo at the battlecruiser Tiger without success. Il ne fut jamais achevé. Lützow's powerplant was rated at 63,000 metric horsepower (62,138 shp; 46,336 kW), which generated a top speed of 26.4 knots (48.9 km/h; 30.4 mph). [49] While Hipper was aboard G39, command of I Scouting Group temporarily fell to KzS Johannes Hartog. Deutschland was ordered by the Reichsmarine from the Deutsche Werke shipyard in Kiel as Ersatz Preussen, as a replacement for the old battleship Preussen. The four remaining battlecruisers turned south immediately in the direction of Norderney to avoid further mine damage. Renamed Petropavlovsk by the Soviets, work was still incomplete when Germany … The Kriegsmarine agreed to the sal Allemagne envahit l'Union soviétique en juin 1941, https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lützow_(croiseur_lourd,_1939)&oldid=179550804, Portail:Époque contemporaine/Articles liés, Portail:Seconde Guerre mondiale/Articles liés, licence Creative Commons attribution, partage dans les mêmes conditions, comment citer les auteurs et mentionner la licence. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. The visibility was so poor that the German ships fired one salvo each, with the exception of Derfflinger, which fired fourteen rounds from her main battery. [22][f] Indeed, approximately 30 minutes after the turret was destroyed, the fire in the turret spread to the working chamber that was directly above the magazine; there it detonated propellant charges that had been stored there. Le Lützow est un croiseur lourd de la Kriegsmarine, cinquième et dernier navire de la classe Admiral Hipper. The forward conning tower, where the ship's commander controlled the vessel, had 300 mm walls. The Lützow Free Corps, a Prussian volunteer force during the Napoleonic wars commanded by Ludwig von Lützow; One of several ships known as the German cruiser Lützow, named for Ludwig von Lützow; 37th SS Volunteer Cavalry Division Lützow, a cavalry division of … [4][c] Built by Schichau-Werke in Danzig, her keel was laid down in May 1912, and she was launched on 29 November 1913. The torpedo boats G37, G38, G40, and V45 came alongside the stricken battlecruiser to evacuate the ship's crew,[59] though six men were trapped in the bow and could not be freed. One pierced the ship's forward superfiring turret and temporarily disabled it. [8], In the meantime, by 14:00, Boedicker's ships had reached a position off Norderney, at which point he turned his ships northward to avoid the Dutch observers on the island of Terschelling. [31] At 18:13, a 15 in (380 mm) shell from one of the Queen Elizabeths struck Lützow; two more hits came at 18:25 and 18:30. On 21–22 April, Lützow joined the rest of the High Seas Fleet for a sortie into the North Sea that failed to locate any British warships. [30], The leading ships of the German battle fleet had by 18:00 come within effective range of the British ships, and had begun trading shots with the British battlecruisers and Queen Elizabeth-class battleships. [7], Lützow' first major operation was the bombardment of Yarmouth and Lowestoft on 24–25 April. The ship was laid down in August 1937 and launched in July 1939, after which the Soviet Union requested to purchase the ship. The operation was to be a repeat of previous German fleet actions: to draw out a portion of the Grand Fleet and destroy it. Le Lützow est un croiseur lourd de la Kriegsmarine, cinquième et dernier navire de la classe Admiral Hipper. The Derfflinger class was authorized for the 1911 fiscal year as part of the 1906 naval law; design work had begun in early 1910. Boedicker's ships opened fire from a range of 12,000 m (13,000 yards). The forward ammunition magazines were penetrated and set on fire; the resulting explosion tore the ship apart. [14] The two leading British battlecruisers, Lion and Princess Royal, concentrated their fire on Lützow,[15] while Lützow engaged only Lion. [53] By 22:13, the last German ship in the line lost sight of Lützow, which was unable to keep up with the fleet. Berlin, 1993 Après la fin de la guerre, il a été utilisé pour la formation et comme caserne flottante, avant d'être envoyé à la ferraille entre 1953 et 1960. 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