| 06.04.1940: |
Together with the torpedo boat Seeadler
, the Luchs
escorts the auxiliary cruiser Orion
through the North Sea. |
| 07.04.1940: |
Operation Weserübung: Luchs
joins the torpedo boats Greif
and Seeadler
in the Kristiansand Attack Group. |
| 23-25.07.1940: |
Together with the torpedo boats Greif
, T5, Iltis
and Jaguar
, the Luchs
escorts the mine layers Cobra
, Hansestadt Danzig
, Kaiser
Königin Louise
, Preussen
and Roland
while laying the mine field NW2 in the North Sea. |
| 25-26.07.1940: |
Transfer of the damaged Gneisenau
back to Germany, the battleship is escorted by light cruiser Nürnberg
and the destroyers Hans Lody
, Paul Jakobi
, Friedrich Ihn
and Karl Galster,
the torpedo boats Iltis
, Jaguar
, Kondor
, Luchs
and T5
. |
| 26.07.1940: |
Luchs
is sunk by a torpedo of the British submarine Clyde
. |
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