Kriegsmarine surface action against Soviet Navy in WW2

[panzermahn]

Hi all,

Anyone knew any major surface action of the Kriegsmarine against the Soviet Navy in WW2? I only knew one, which is KMS Admiral Scheer sinking the Soviet icebreaker Valerian Kubyshev in 1943. Sorry I forgot the operation's name but it was a sortie by KMS Admiral Scheer bombarding a Soviet-held island in the North Sea in 1943


Panzermahn

[Tom Houlihan]

I should let this go, but I can't.

If you classify a capital ship taking out an icebreaker as a major engagement, how would you describe, say, the actions in The Slot?*



*off Guadalcanal

[panzermahn]

Hi Tom

Not actually major engagement but at least some surface action between the Kriegsmarine and Soviet Navy. Oh, please forgive me for mistake, but the icebreaker sunk by Admiral Scheer in 1942 was Sibiryakov and not Kubyshev as I had mentioned earlier. The name of the operation was Unternehmen Wunderland at Kara Sea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wunderland

Apologies for the mistake earlier as I was writting from memory

Panzermahn

[OHARA]

Not too many surface actions. On 6 July 1941 the destroyers Serdityl and Silnyi traded salvos with the minesweeper M31 and the depot ship MRS11. M31 reportedly landed a shell on Silnyi, although I haven't seen this confirmed by any Soviet sources. On 21 January 1943 the destroyers Baku and Razumnyi ran past a German convoy escorted by M303, M322, Uj1104 and Uj1105. The Soviet ships fired torpedoes and there was a general exchange of gunfire that lasted six minutes. Apparenlty Razumnyi was hit by one shell which ignated a small fire near her no. 2 mount. The destroyers Gremyashchiy and Sokrushitelnyi were part of the escort when the German destroyers attacked Convoy PQ13 on 29 March 1942. There was also an action between Romanian destroyers and Moskva and Kharkov on 26 June 1942 and in the Baltic on 21 November 1944 German minesweepers and patrol boats mixed it up with the Soviet minesweeper T207 and the gunboats Volga, Bureja and Zeya. The German patrol boat V1713 was badly damaged while T207 was sunk and Volga crippled.

Can anyone add to this list (not including motor-torpedo boats)?

Vince O'Hara