Table of Contents
67 relations: Adolf Hitler, Anti-aircraft warfare, Atlantic Ocean, Świnoujście, Beam (nautical), Bomber, Bornholm, Ceremonial ship launching, Depth charge, Deutsche Werke, Deutschland-class cruiser, Displacement (ship), Dogger Bank, Draft (hull), Drive shaft, Fishing trawler, Flare (ship), Fleet review, Flotilla, Forecastle, Fuel oil, Funnel (ship), Günther Lütjens, German torpedo boat Tiger (1928), Glossary of nautical terms (A–L), Gruppenhorchgerät, Gun shield, Heinkel He 111, Hydrophone, Iceland, Invasion of Poland, Kampfgeschwader 26, Keel laying, Kiel, Korvettenkapitän, Kriegsmarine, Length overall, Naval Board of Inquiry, Naval mine, Nazi Germany, North Sea, Operation Wikinger, Port, Port and starboard, Ramming, Sea captain, Seakeeping, Ship ballast, Sister ship, Skagerrak, ... Expand index (17 more) »
- Maritime incidents in February 1940
- Type 1934 destroyers
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945.
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Anti-aircraft warfare
Anti-aircraft warfare is the counter to aerial warfare and it includes "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action" (NATO's definition).
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.
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Świnoujście
Świnoujście (Swinemünde; Swienemünn; all three meaning "Świna mouth"; Swina) is a city in Western Pomerania and seaport on the Baltic Sea and Szczecin Lagoon, located in the extreme north-west of Poland.
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Beam (nautical)
The beam of a ship is its width at its widest point.
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Bomber
A bomber is a military combat aircraft that utilizes air-to-ground weaponry to drop bombs, launch torpedoes, or deploy air-launched cruise missiles.
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Bornholm
Bornholm is a Danish island in the Baltic Sea, to the east of the rest of Denmark, south of Sweden, northeast of Germany and north of Poland.
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Ceremonial ship launching
Ceremonial ship launching involves the performance of ceremonies associated with the process of transferring a vessel to the water.
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Depth charge
A depth charge is an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) weapon designed to destroy submarines by detonating in the water near the target and subjecting it to a destructive hydraulic shock.
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Deutsche Werke
Deutsche Werke was a German shipbuilding company that was founded in 1925 when Kaiserliche Werft Kiel and other shipyards were merged.
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Deutschland-class cruiser
The Deutschland class was a series of three Panzerschiffe (armored ships), a form of heavily armed cruiser, built by the Reichsmarine officially in accordance with restrictions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles.
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Displacement (ship)
The displacement or displacement tonnage of a ship is its weight.
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Dogger Bank
Dogger Bank (Dutch: Doggersbank, German: Doggerbank, Danish: Doggerbanke) is a large sandbank in a shallow area of the North Sea about off the east coast of England.
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Draft (hull)
The draft or draught of a ship is a determined depth of the vessel below the waterline, measured vertically to its hull's lowest—its propellers, or keel, or other reference point.
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Drive shaft
A drive shaft, driveshaft, driving shaft, tailshaft (Australian English), propeller shaft (prop shaft), or Cardan shaft (after Girolamo Cardano) is a component for transmitting mechanical power, torque, and rotation, usually used to connect other components of a drivetrain that cannot be connected directly because of distance or the need to allow for relative movement between them.
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Fishing trawler
A fishing trawler is a commercial fishing vessel designed to operate fishing trawls.
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Flare (ship)
Flare is the angle at which a ship's hull plate or planking departs from the vertical in an outward direction with increasing height.
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Fleet review
A fleet review or naval review is an event where a gathering of ships from a particular navy is paraded and reviewed by an incumbent head of state and/or other official civilian and military dignitaries.
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Flotilla
A flotilla (from Spanish, meaning a small flota (fleet) of ships), or naval flotilla, is a formation of small warships that may be part of a larger fleet.
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Forecastle
The forecastle (contracted as fo'c'sle or fo'c's'le) is the upper deck of a sailing ship forward of the foremast, or, historically, the forward part of a ship with the sailors' living quarters.
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Fuel oil
Fuel oil is any of various fractions obtained from the distillation of petroleum (crude oil).
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Funnel (ship)
A funnel is the smokestack or chimney on a ship used to expel boiler steam and smoke or engine exhaust.
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Günther Lütjens
Johann Günther Lütjens (25 May 1889 – 27 May 1941) was a German admiral whose military service spanned more than 30 years and two world wars.
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German torpedo boat Tiger (1928)
Tiger was the third of six Type 24 torpedo boats built for the German Navy (initially called the Reichsmarine and then renamed as the Kriegsmarine in 1935) during the 1920s.
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Glossary of nautical terms (A–L)
This glossary of nautical terms is an alphabetical listing of terms and expressions connected with ships, shipping, seamanship and navigation on water (mostly though not necessarily on the sea).
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Gruppenhorchgerät
The Gruppenhorchgerät ('group listening device', abbreviated GHG) was a hydrophone array which was used on vessels of the German Kriegsmarine in World War II.
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Gun shield
U.S. Marine manning an M240 machine gun equipped with a gun shield A gun shield is a flat (or sometimes curved) piece of armor designed to be mounted on a crew-served weapon such as a machine gun, automatic grenade launcher, or artillery piece.
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Heinkel He 111
The Heinkel He 111 is a German airliner and bomber designed by Siegfried and Walter Günter at Heinkel Flugzeugwerke in 1934.
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Hydrophone
A hydrophone (water + sound) is a microphone designed to be used underwater for recording or listening to underwater sound.
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Iceland
Iceland (Ísland) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe.
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Invasion of Poland
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, War of Poland of 1939, and Polish Defensive War of 1939 (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II.
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Kampfgeschwader 26
Kampfgeschwader 26 (KG 26) "Löwengeschwader" (in English Bomber Wing 26 aka "Lions' Wing" by virtue of its insignia) was a German air force Luftwaffe bomber wing unit during World War II.
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Keel laying
Laying the keel or laying down is the formal recognition of the start of a ship's construction.
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Kiel
Kiel is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243 (2021).
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Korvettenkapitän
Korvettenkapitän is the lowest ranking senior officer in a number of Germanic-speaking navies.
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Kriegsmarine
The Kriegsmarine was the navy of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945.
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Length overall
Length overall (LOA, o/a, o.a. or oa) is the maximum length of a vessel's hull measured parallel to the waterline.
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Naval Board of Inquiry
Naval Board of Inquiry and Naval Court of Inquiry are two types of investigative court proceedings, conducted by the United States Navy in response to an event that adversely affects the performance, or reputation, of the fleet or one of its ships or stations.
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Naval mine
A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to damage or destroy surface ships or submarines.
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Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
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North Sea
The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.
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Operation Wikinger
Operation Viking (German: Unternehmen Wikinger) was a German naval sortie into the North Sea by six destroyers of the Kriegsmarine on 22 February 1940 during the Second World War. German destroyer Z3 Max Schultz and Operation Wikinger are Friendly fire incidents of World War II.
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Port
A port is a maritime facility comprising one or more wharves or loading areas, where ships load and discharge cargo and passengers.
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Port and starboard
Port and starboard are nautical terms for watercraft, aircraft and spacecraft, referring respectively to the left and right sides of the vessel, when aboard and facing the bow (front).
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Ramming
In warfare, ramming is a technique used in air, sea, and land combat.
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Sea captain
A sea captain, ship's captain, captain, master, or shipmaster, is a high-grade licensed mariner who holds ultimate command and responsibility of a merchant vessel.
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Seakeeping
Seakeeping ability or seaworthiness is a measure of how well-suited a watercraft is to conditions when underway.
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Ship ballast
Ballast is extra weight placed low in ships to lower their centre of gravity, which increases stability (more technically, to provide moment to resist the lateral forces on the hull).
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Sister ship
A sister ship is a ship of the same class or of virtually identical design to another ship.
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Skagerrak
The Skagerrak is a strait running between the Jutland peninsula of Denmark, the east coast of Norway and the west coast of Sweden, connecting the North Sea and the Kattegat sea.
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Steam turbine
A steam turbine is a machine that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam and uses it to do mechanical work on a rotating output shaft.
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Submarine
A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater.
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Superfiring
Superfiring armament is a naval military building technique in which two (or more) turrets are located one behind the other, with the rear turret located above ("super") the one in front so that it can fire over the first.
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Superstructure
A superstructure is an upward extension of an existing structure above a baseline.
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Torpedo boat
A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval ship designed to carry torpedoes into battle.
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Torpedo tube
A torpedo tube is a cylindrical device for launching torpedoes.
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Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed on 28 June 1919.
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Type 1934 destroyers
The Type 1934 destroyers, also known as the Z1 class or Leberecht Maass class after the lead ship, were a group of four destroyers built for the German Navy (initially called the Reichsmarine and then renamed the Kriegsmarine in 1935) during the mid-1930s, shortly before the beginning of World War II.
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Ulvik
Ulvik is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway.
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Water-tube boiler
A high pressure watertube boiler (also spelled water-tube and water tube) is a type of boiler in which water circulates in tubes heated externally by fire.
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Waterline length
A vessel's length at the waterline (abbreviated to L.W.L) is the length of a ship or boat at the level where it sits in the water (the waterline).
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Weimar Republic
The Weimar Republic, officially known as the German Reich, was a historical period of Germany from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclaimed itself, as the German Republic.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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12.7 cm SK C/34 naval gun
The 12.8 cm SK C/34SK - Schnelladekanone (quick loading cannon); C - Construktionsjahr (year of design) was a German medium-caliber naval gun deployed on destroyers from 1934 through the Second World War.
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1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania
On 20 March 1939, Nazi Germany's foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop presented an oral ultimatum to Juozas Urbšys, foreign minister of Lithuania.
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2 cm Flak 30, Flak 38 and Flakvierling 38
The Flak 30 (Flugzeugabwehrkanone 30) and improved Flak 38 were 20 mm anti-aircraft guns used by various German forces throughout World War II.
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3.7 cm SK C/30
The 3.7 cm SK C/30SK - Schnelladekanone (quick loading cannon); C - Construktionsjahr (year of design) was the German Kriegsmarine's primary anti-aircraft gun during the Second World War.
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See also
Maritime incidents in February 1940
- Altmark incident
- French submarine Archimède (Q142)
- German destroyer Z1 Leberecht Maass
- German destroyer Z3 Max Schultz
- German submarine U-33 (1936)
- German submarine U-41 (1939)
- German submarine U-53 (1939)
- German submarine U-54 (1939)
- German submarine U-63 (1939)
- German tanker Altmark
- HMS Daring (H16)
- HMS Sphinx (J69)
- List of shipwrecks in February 1940
- MV Imperial Transport
- SS Linda (1899)
- SS Orizaba (1939)
- SS Tiberton
- USS Choctaw (1898)
Type 1934 destroyers
- German destroyer Z1 Leberecht Maass
- German destroyer Z10 Hans Lody
- German destroyer Z11 Bernd von Arnim
- German destroyer Z12 Erich Giese
- German destroyer Z13 Erich Koellner
- German destroyer Z14 Friedrich Ihn
- German destroyer Z15 Erich Steinbrinck
- German destroyer Z16 Friedrich Eckoldt
- German destroyer Z2 Georg Thiele
- German destroyer Z3 Max Schultz
- German destroyer Z4 Richard Beitzen
- German destroyer Z5 Paul Jacobi
- German destroyer Z6 Theodor Riedel
- German destroyer Z7 Hermann Schoemann
- German destroyer Z8 Bruno Heinemann
- German destroyer Z9 Wolfgang Zenker
- Type 1934 destroyers
- Type 1934A destroyers
References
Also known as German destroyer Max Schultz (Z3), German destroyer Z3, German destroyer Z3 Max Schulz, Max Schultz, Max Schulz, Z3 Max Schultz.

