Z5 Paul Jacobi was a Type 1934A destroyer built for the Kriegsmarine in the mid-1930s. The ship was being refitted when World War II began on 1 September...

The Type 34s spent the prewar years training and showing the flag. Z5 Paul Jacobi and Z8 Bruno Heinemann exercised off the coast of Norway where the latter...

cruiser Desaix, a French Navy armored cruiser in commission from 1904 to 1921 Z5 Paul Jacobi, a destroyer transferred to the French Navy as Desaix after World War...

German waters for Norway, escorted by the destroyers Z4 Richard Beitzen, Z5 Paul Jacobi, Z8 Bruno Heinemann and Z29, arriving at Trondheim on the 17th. The...

Z5 Paul Jacobi Laid down: AG Weser (Deschimag), Bremen, 15 July 1935 Launched: 24 March 1936 Commissioned: 29 June 1937 Fate: Transferred to France as...

Hermelin Lützow left Altafjord for the Baltic escorted by the destroyers Z5 Paul Jacobi, Z14 Friedrich Ihn, Z15 Erich Steinbrinck and Z27. When the German force...

escort Lützow during Operation Hermelin, alongside German destroyers Z5 Paul Jacobi, Z14 Friedrich Ihn, Z15 Erich Steinbrinck, and Z27. On 22 October Z38...

2,223 13 May 1937 ceded to UK 14 May 1945, scrapped 10 January 1949 Z5 Paul Jacobi Type 1934A Destroyer 2,171 29 June 1937 ceded to UK May 1945, to France...

wounding seven. In Operation Zauberflote (Magic Flute), Z25, the destroyer Z5 Paul Jacobi, and two torpedo boats escorted the badly damaged Prinz Eugen from Trondheim...

Ex-Kriegsmarine: Type 1934A-class destroyer: Desaix (ex-German destroyer Z5 Paul Jacobi) 1946–1954 Kléber (D603) (ex-German destroyer Z6 Theodor Riedel) 1946–1957...

initial stage of the sortie on 18 February, but Leberecht Maass and Z5 Paul Jacobi were detached the following day on an unsuccessful search for enemy...

and Lützow. Several weeks later, Z20 Karl Galster, and the destroyers Z5 Paul Jacobi and Z6 Theodor Riedel, sailed for Jan Mayen island on 31 March to rendezvous...

the next day. Theodor Riedel and her sisters Z8 Bruno Heinemann and Z5 Paul Jacobi each carried a company of mountain troops tasked to seize the forts...

Sister ship Z5 Paul Jacobi, c. 1938 History Nazi Germany Name Z11 Bernd von Arnim Namesake Bernd von Arnim Ordered 9 January 1935 Builder Germania, Kiel...

North Sea for Bergen in Norway. The destroyers Z1 Leberecht Maass, Z5 Paul Jacobi, Z6 Theodor Riedel and Z7 Hermann Schoemann together with torpedo boats...

1942, Seawolf sighted Tirpitz, along with her escorting destroyers Z5 Paul Jacobi, Z14 Friedrich Ihn, Z7 Hermann Schoemann and Z25. The German ships had...

Zauberflote (Magic Flute)), together with T11 and the destroyers Z25 and Z5 Paul Jacobi. She began a refit upon her arrival that lasted until August. On 15–19...

Zauberflote (Magic Flute)), together with T12 and the destroyers Z25 and Z5 Paul Jacobi. T11 returned to Germany that month and was placed in reserve until...

(Z16) 2. Zerstörer-Flottille October 1939 (2nd Destroyer Division) Paul Jacobi (Z5), Theodor Riedel (Z6), Hermann Schoemann (Z7), Bruno Heinemann (Z8)...