Greif

Operation Weserübung: Greif joins the torpedo boats Luchs and Seeadler in the Kristiansand Attack Group.

Together with the torpedo boats Möwe and Seeadler, the Greif escorts the mine layer Hansestadt Danzig and Kaiser laying the "Paternoster" mine field in the Kattegatt. Over 500 mines are thrown.

Together with the destroyers Bruno Heinemann, Richard Beitzen and Hermann Schoemann, and 3 S-boats, the Greif escorts the mine layers Corba, Kaiser, Roland and Preussen while laying the mine field 16. The operation is cancelled when aircraft detected British destroyers nearby.

Together with the destroyers Hans Lody, Erich Steinbrinck and Hermann Schoemann and the torpedo boat Kondor, the Greif escorts the bomb damaged Scharnhorst from Drontheim to Kiel.

Together with the torpedo boats T5, T8, Iltis and Jaguar, the Greif e scorts the mine layers Cobra, Hansestadt Danzig, Kaiser Königin Louise, Preussen and Roland while laying the mine field Sperre 19 in the North Sea. The mine layers carry over 1560 mines.

Together with the torpedo boats T5, Iltis, Luchs and Jaguar, the Greif escorts the mine layers Cobra, Hansestadt Danzig, Kaiser Königin Louise, Preussen and Roland while laying the mine field NW2 in the North Sea.

Mine laying operation SW3. Together with the destroyers Paul Jakobi, Karl Galster and Erich Steinbrinck and the torpedo boats Falke, Iltis, Jaguar, T5, T6, T7 and T8 the Greif escorts the mine layers Corba, Roland and Tannenberg. The mine layers carry about 600 mines.

The destroyer Karl Galster and the torpedo boats Falke, Greif, Ilits, Jaguar, Kondor, T1, T2 and T3 excecute a mine laying operation in the south western North Sea.

Mine laying operation SW0: The destroyer Karl Galster and the torpedo boat Kondor cover the mine laying operation of the mine layers Kaiser, Togo and the torpedo boats Greif, Falke and Iltis. The mine layers carry 405 mines while the torpedo boats about 1000 explosive buoys.

Mine laying operation at Dover together with the torpedo boats Falke, Kondor and Seeadler.

Operation of the 5. Torpedo boat flotilla against the Isle of Wright.

Operation of the 5. Torpedo boat flotilla against the Isle of Wright. The French submarine hunters Ch6 and Ch7 and the British armed trawlers Listrac and Warwick Deeping are sunk.

Operation against the Bristol Channel together with the destroyers Friedrich Ihn, Erick Steinbrinck, Hans Lody, Karl Galster and the torpedo boats Falke, Jaguar, Kondor, Seeadler and Wolf. Short engangement with British cruisers and destroyers.

Mine laying operation of Greif, Falke, Kondor and Seeadler near Dover.

The torpedo boats Falke, Greif and Seeadler cover the mine laying operation for the mine field "SW a WAGNER" in the North Sea.. The mine layers Corba, Roland, Kaiser and Skagerak carry a total of 982 mines, the torpedo boats Iltis and Jaguar 400 explosive buoys.

The torpedo boats Falke, Greif, Seeadler, T1, T7, T9, T10 and T12 escort the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau during their attempt to break into the North Atlantic. The operation is aborted.

Greif and Seeadler escort the blockade runner Alstertor from Cuxhaven to Brest.

The torpedo boats Greif, Falke, Jaguar and Seeadler are sent to Denmark.

Greif, Falke, Jaguar and Seeadler escort the light cruiser Nürnberg to Horten. On their way back, they escort the light cruisers Emden and Leipzig to Frederikshavn.

The torpedo boats Greif and Kondor escort the light cruiser Emden from Frederikshavn to Norden.