German destroyer Z9 Wolfgang Zenker
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| Ship name = ''Z9 Wolfgang Zenker'' | Ship namesake = Wolfgang Zenker | Ship ordered = 9 January 1935 | Ship builder = Germania, Kiel | Ship original cost = | Ship yard number = G535 | Ship way number = | Ship laid down = 22 March 1935 | Ship launched = 27 March 1936 | Ship sponsor = | Ship christened = | Ship completed = 2 July 1938 | Ship commissioned = | Ship fate = Scuttled, 13 April 1940 | Ship notes = | Ship badge = }}
| Ship displacement = * (standard) * (deep load) | Ship length = * o/a * w/l | Ship beam = | Ship draft = | Ship propulsion = 2 shafts, 2 × geared steam turbines | Ship speed = | Ship range = at | Ship power = * * 6 × water-tube boilers | Ship complement = 325 | Ship armament = *5 × single guns * 2 × twin AA guns * 6 × single AA guns * 2 × quadruple torpedo tubes * 60 mines * 32–64 depth charges, 4 throwers and 6 individual racks }} |} '''Z9 ''Wolfgang Zenker''''' was a built for Nazi Germany's ''Kriegsmarine'' in the mid-1930s. Several days after the start of World War II, she unsuccessfully attacked, together with another destroyer, Polish ships anchored at the naval base on the Hel Peninsula. In early 1940 the ship made two successful minelaying sorties off the English coast that claimed six merchant ships. ''Wolfgang Zenker'' participated in the early stages of the Norwegian Campaign by transporting troops to the Narvik area in early April 1940. The ship fought in both naval Battles of Narvik several days later and had to be scuttled after she exhausted her ammunition. Provided by Wikipedia
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2by Kübber-Heiss, Anna, Zedrosser, Andreas, Rauer, Georg, Zenker, Wolfgang, Schmidt, Peter, Arnemo, Jon MartinGet access
Published 2009
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