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T6

Torpedoboot 1940  Torpedoboot 1935  Class

   Ship Info   History   Operations   Technical Data 
31.08.-02.09.1940:   Mine laying operation SW3. Together with the destroyers Paul Jakobi, Karl Galster  and Erich Steinbrinck and the torpedo boats Greif , Iltis , Jaguar , T5 , T7 and T8 the T6 escorts the mine layers Corba , Roland and Tannenberg . The mine layers carry about 600 mines. After the operation, the boat sails to Cherbourg.
05-06.09.1940:   The 2. T-Flottilla (T5 -T8 ) excecutes a mine laying operation near Dover.
08-09.09.1940:   The 2. T-Flottilla (T5 -T8 ) excecutes another mine laying operation near Dover.
15-16.09.1940:   The 2. T-Flottilla (T5 -T8 ) excecutes another mine laying operation near Dover, the ships are engaged in a battle with smaller British ships.
20-21.09.1940:   Transferred to Wilhlemshaven, later sent to the Baltic Sea.
27-29.10.1940:   T6 , T7 , T8 and T10 escort the Panzerschiff Admiral Scheer from Brunsbüttel to Bergen. 
06-07.11.1940:   Operation of the 1st and 2nd torpedo boat flotilla with T1 , T4 , T6 , T7 , T8 , T9 and T10 against costal shipping at the British east coast. The operation is cancelled after T6 is sunk after a mine hit near Aberdeen.

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