| 07.04.1940: |
Operation Weserübung: Kondor
joins the torpedo boats Möwe
and Albatros
in the Oslo Attack Group. |
| 29-30.04.1940: |
Together with the destroyers Richard Beitzen
and Bruno Heinemann
and the torpedo boats Leopard
, Möwe
and Wolf
, the Kondor
escorts the mine layers Kaiser
, Roland
and Preussen
while laying the mine field 17n. The mine layers carry over 1000 mines. The Leopard
is lost after being rammed by the mine layer Kaiser
. |
| 20-23.06.1940: |
Together with the destroyers Hans Lody, Erich Steinbrinck
and Hermann Schoemann
and the torpedo boat Greif
, the Kondor
escorts the bomb damaged Scharnhorst
from Drontheim to Kiel.
|
| 25-28.07.1940: |
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
. |
| 07-08.08.1940: |
Together with the torpedo boats Falke , Jaguar, T2, T7 and T8
, the Kondor
escorts the mine layers Cobra
, Roland
and Brumer
while laying the mine field SW1. The mine layers carry over 600 mines. |
| 14-15.08.1940: |
Together with the destroyers Paul Jakobi
and Karl Galster
and the torpedo boats Falke
, Iltis
, Jaguar
, T5
and T7
, the Kondor
escorts the mine layers Corba
, Roland
and Tanneberg
while laying the mine field SW2. The mine layers carry 600 mines. |
| 06-07.09.1940: |
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. |
| 07-08.09.1940: |
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. |
| 30.09-01.10.1940: |
Mine laying operation at Dover together with the torpedo boats Greif
, Falke
and Seeadler
. |
| 08-09.10.1940: |
Operation of the 5. Torpedo boat flotilla against the Isle of Wright. |
| 11-12.10.1940: |
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. |
| 17-18.10.1940: |
Operation against the Bristol Channel together with the destroyers Friedrich Ihn
, Erick Steinbrinck
, Hans Lody
, Karl Galster
and the torpedo boats Falke
, Greif
, Jaguar
, Seeadler
and Wolf
. Short engangement with British cruisers and destroyers. |
| 03-04.12.1940: |
Mine laying operation of Greif, Falke, Kondor
and Seeadler
near Dover. |
| 07-08.01.1941: |
Mine laying operation of Kondor
and Wolf
near Dover. |
| 28-30.01.1941: |
Transfer of the destroyer Richard Beitzen
and the torpedo boats Iltis
, Kondor
and Seeadler
to Brest. |
| 01-02.02.1941: |
The heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper
is escorted by the destroyer Richrd Beitzen
and the torpedo boats Kondor
and Seeadler
while leaving Brest. |
| 13-14.02.1941: |
The heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper
is escorted by the destroyer Richrd Beitzen
and the torpedo boats Kondor
and Seeadler
while returning to Brest. |
| 03.08.1941: |
Transfered to Frederikshavn. |
| 09-12.08.1941: |
Escorted by the torpedo boats Kondor
and T2
, the Theodor Riedel
is transferred to Norway. The destroyer is damaged after running agound. |
| 22.08.1941: |
The torpedo boats Greif
and Kondor
escort the light cruiser Emden
from Frederikshavn to Norden. |
| 12-13.02.1942: |
Operation "Cerberus": On board of Z29
, the "Füher der Zerstöer" and the destroyers Richard Beitzen
, Paul Jakobi
, Hermann Schoemann
, Friedrich Ihn,
Z25
and the torpedo boats T2
, T4
, T4
, T11
, T12
, T13
, T15
, T16
, T17
Seeadler
, Kondor
, Jaguar
, Falke
and iescort the battleships Scharnhorst
and Gneisenau
and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen
through the Channel from Brest ot Germany. |
| 13-17-03.1942: |
Falke
, Iltis
, Jaguar
, Kondor
, Seeadler
and several mine hunters escort the voyage of the auxiliary cruiser Michel
thourh the Channel to La Pallice. The ships are attacked by the British destroyers Windsor
and Walpole
, the escort vessel Ferne
and several MTB/MGB. |
| 28.03.1942: |
Operation of the torpedo boats Falke
, Iltis
, Jaguar
, Kondor
and Seeadler
against British small attack boats. Two of them (MGB 314
and MTB 74
) are sunk or captured. |
| 08-12.05.1942: |
The 5th T-flotilla consisting of Falke
, Iltis
, Kondor
and Seeadler
sail from Brest to the Hoek van Holland to escort the auxiliary cruiser Stier
. |
| 12-13.05.1942: |
On its way through the channel, the auxiliay cruiser Stier
, covered by Falke
, Iltis
, Kondor
and Seeadler
, the ships are attacked by British forces. Near Cape Griz Niez, Seeadler
sinks the British MTB 200. After Iltis
and Seeadler
got sunk by other MTB on the 13th, the convoy departs to Bologne. Escroted by the remaining torpedo boats, the Stier
continues to La Palice and Royan. |
| 12-21.11.1942: |
Kondor
and T23
transfer from Kiel to La Pallice. |
| 20.11.1942: |
Kondor, T23
and the mine hunter M85
accidently attack two German patrol boats near the channel islands, causing several wounded and dead. |
| : |
To be continued... |
