German destroyer Z3 Max Schultz

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| Ship name = ''Max Schultz'' | Ship namesake = | Ship ordered = 7 July 1934 | Ship yard number = K244 | Ship builder = Deutsche Werke, Kiel | Ship laid down = 2 January 1935 | Ship launched = 30 November 1935 | Ship commissioned = 8 April 1937 | Ship fate = Sunk, 22 February 1940. All hands lost. | Ship notes = }} (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 | Ship notes = }} |} '''Z3 ''Max Schultz''''' was one of four Type 1934 destroyers built for the German Navy (''Kriegsmarine'') during the mid-1930s. Completed in 1937, two years before the start of World War II, the ship spent most of her time training although she did participate in the occupation of Memel in early 1939. Shortly before the beginning of World War II, the ship accidentally rammed and sank a German torpedo boat. ''Z3 Max Schultz'' spent the following month under repair. In mid-February 1940, while proceeding into the North Sea to search for British fishing trawlers, one of her sisters, , was bombed and sunk by a patrolling German bomber, with loss of 280 of her crew. While trying to rescue survivors, ''Z3 Max Schultz'' was either bombed by a patrolling German bomber, or struck a British mine and sunk, with the loss of all 308 of her crew. A contemporary German court of inquiry stated that ''Z3 Max Schultz'' was damaged by the German bomber, however postwar research revealed that ''Z3 Max Schultz'' may have hit a mine instead. Provided by Wikipedia