Name T-25 Laid down 1940 Fate Sunk, 28 December 1943 Construction started 1940 Builder Schichau | Ordered 23 April 1938 Commissioned 12 December 1942 Class and type Type 1939 torpedo boat Launched 1 December 1941 | |
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German torpedo-boat T-25 was a torpedo boat (a type of small destroyer popular in European navies) built for the Kriegsmarine during the Second World War. Built by Schichau of Elbing, T-25 was one of fifteen Type 39 torpedo boats, sometimes referred to as the Elbing-class. She was laid down in 1940, launched on 1 December 1941 and commissioned on 12 December 1942. T-25 was assigned to general escort duties and stationed in Occupied France on the Bay of Biscay.
Fate
In December 1943 T-25 sailed with her flotilla on Operation Bernau, a mission to escort two German blockade runners to safety. The operation was a failure for the German Navy; along with the Narvik-class destroyer Z27 and her sister Elbing-class torpedo boat, T26, were attacked by the British cruisers HMS Glasgow and Enterprise in the Bay of Biscay and sunk on 28 December 1943. Her survivors were rescued by U-505, which picked up 33 men; U-618, which saved 21 from Z27; and by the Irish merchantman MV Kerlogue, which saved 168, from all three, the day after the attack.