German torpedo boat Luchs and gunnery school ship Delfin sighted at Warnemunde according to a report of the American Naval Attaché at Berlin, Germany Nr. R562 dated 15 September 1939

Diary note dated Tuesday 5 September 1939. An item reported that Lieutenant Commander Durgin came back from Copenhagen, Denmark and saw at Warnemunde, Germany a torpedo boat called Luchs (1) and the gunnery school ship Delfin.(2)

Notes

1. Edward Robinson Durgin (14 January 1900 Palmyra, New Jersey-9 November 1970), between 1937-1940 as lieutenant commander Assistant U.S. Naval Attaché at Berlin, ended his career in the US Navy in the rank of rear admiral.

2. Type 24 torpedo boat preceded by Type 23 torpedo boat succeeded by Type 35 torpedo boat. Laid down by Reichsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven, Germany with yard number 111 op 2 April 1927, launched on 15 March 1928, commissioned on 15 April 1929 and torpedoed and lost after leaving Stavanger, Norway to pick up the damaged Gneisenau bound for Kiel on 26 July 1940. Caused by a floating mine or torpedoed by the British submarine HMS Thames.

3. Artillery training boat, laid down by Howaldtswerf, Kiel, Germany als minehunter M108 in 1905, launched on 25 January 1906, commissioned on 15 May 1906, added as target tug and distance measurement tender to the naval artillery school since 15 November 1925, renamed Delphin on 2 June 1928, modernized and converted into a Flak training boot since 24 October 1936, renamed M5-8 and added to the mine service, renamed M3600 after 17 September 1943 when she became the leader of the flotilla active along the Dutch coast and handed over to Russia on 17 November 1945.

Source

National Archives. FDR Presidential Library&Museum Roosevelt PSFC000175. War diary Naval Attaché Berlin, volume 1 (1 September 1939-26 May 1940)