The German destroyer Z2 Georg Thiele was one of four Type 1934-class destroyers built for the German Navy during the mid-1930s. Completed in 1937, two years before the start of World War II, the ship
Sister ship Z1 Leberecht Maass
Georg Thiele photographed by a British ship after having been run aground.
The wreck site today
HMS Eskimo (F75)
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HMS Eskimo was a Tribal-class destroyer, Eskimo served throughout the Second World War, seeing action in Norway, the Mediterranean, the English Channel and in Burma. After the war Eskimo was used as a
German destroyer Z2 Georg Thiele
…The British destroyers then switched their attentions to Thiele. The German ship struck the first blow when one of her torpedoes blew the bow off Eskimo, but the return fire from the British ships started several fires and damaged her so heavily that Korvettenkapitän Max-Eckart Wolff, the ship's captain…
Eskimo in April 1944
Eskimo after losing her bow during the Second Battle of Narvik