German destroyer Z12 Erich Giese

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| Ship name = ''Z12 Erich Giese'' | Ship namesake = Erich Giese | Ship ordered = 9 January 1935 | Ship builder = Germania, Kiel | Ship original cost = | Ship yard number = G538 | Ship way number = | Ship laid down = 3 May 1935 | Ship launched = 12 March 1937 | Ship sponsor = | Ship christened = | Ship completed = 4 March 1939 | Ship commissioned = | Ship fate = Sunk, 13 April 1940 | Ship notes = | Ship badge = }}

| Ship displacement = * (standard) * (deep load) | Ship length = * o/a * w/l | Ship beam = | Ship draft = | Ship propulsion = 2 shafts, 2 × geared steam turbines | Ship speed = | Ship range = at | Ship power = * *6 × water-tube boilers | Ship complement = 325 | Ship armament = *5 × single guns *2 × twin AA guns *6 × single AA guns *2 × quadruple torpedo tubes *60 mines *32–64 depth charges, 4 throwers and 6 individual racks }} |} '''Z12 ''Erich Giese''''' was a built for Nazi Germany's ''Kriegsmarine'' in the late 1930s. At the beginning of World War II, the ship was used in the German Bight to lay minefields in German waters. In late 1939 the ship made one successful minelaying sortie off the English coast that claimed two merchant ships. While returning from that sortie, she torpedoed a British destroyer without being detected and continued on her way. During the early stages of the Norwegian Campaign, ''Erich Giese'' fought in both naval Battles of Narvik in mid-April 1940 and was sunk by British destroyers during the Second Battle of Narvik. Provided by Wikipedia