二次世界大戰資料庫 (WW2DB)

Contributor: C. Peter Chen

ww2dbaseJaguar was the last of the Type 24 class of torpedo boats. She was commissioned into service in 1928 and was assigned to the 3rd Torpedo Boat Half-Flotilla. In late 1931, her original 500-millimeter torpedo tubes were placed by 533-millimeter torpedo tubes, and two 2-centimeter C/30 anti-aircraft guns were added. In late 1936, she was assigned to the 3rd Torpedo Boat Flotilla, with which unit she saw patrols off the Spanish coast during the Spanish Civil War. During WW2, alongside of torpedo boat Falke, she captured six ships in the Skaggerak between 14 and 16 Dec 1940. In late Dec 1939, she was put into a shipyard at Wesermünde for a refit, returning to service in Mar 1940. During the Norwegian Campaign, she was one of the escorts that guarded the torpedoed heavy cruiser Lützow back home. Between 4 and 5 Jun 1940, Falke and Jaguar provided the anti-submarine screen for battleships Gneisenau and Scharnhorst and the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper from Kiel, Germany, to the Skaggerak for an unsuccessful attempt to intercept the Allied convoys evacuating northern Norway. Between 21 and 23 Jun 1940, she was one of the escorts that guarded damaged Scharnhorst as the battleship returned from Norway to Kiel. Jaguar was assigned to France in Sep 1940, where she would escort minelayers as a member of the 5th Torpedo Boat Flotilla as well as laying mines off the English coast herself. She went through a refit in Rotterdam, Netherlands between Apr and May 1941. Between Jun and Oct 1941, she provided convoy escort duties in the Skagerrak. In Feb 1942, she returned to the 5th Torpedo Boat Flotilla in France. During Operation Cerberus, which was referred to by the British as Channel Dash, she joined Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen on 12 Feb 1942 off Cap Gris-Nez, providing escort. A month later, in Mar 1942, she, along with flotilla mates, escorted commerce raider Michel and damaged British destroyers HMS Walpole and HMS Fernie. In Sep and Oct 1942, she escorted German blockade runners out of French ports as they sailed for Japan. In early 1943, she escorted battleships and cruisers off the Norwegian coast before returning to Germany and then France. During the war, a quadruple 2-centimeter C/30 anti-aircraft gun mount was added just forward of the No. 2 gun, and six additional single mounts were added as well. In 1944, radar and a FuMB 4 Sumatra radar detector was added. During the Allied invasion of Normandie, France, the 5th Flotilla which she was a part of sortied multiple times out of Le Havre to disrupt Allied shipping. The flotilla expended 50 torpedoes and other ammunition, but could claim only one sinking, Norwegian destroyer Svenner. Jaguar was sunk by British RAF Bomber Command bombers after sundown on 14 Jun 1944, along with torpedo boat Falke.

Motor Torpedo Boat Jaguar 互動地圖

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Jaguar Operational Timeline