German destroyer Z8 Bruno Heinemann

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| Ship name = ''Z8 Bruno Heinemann'' | Ship namesake = Bruno Heinemann | Ship ordered = 9 January 1935 | Ship awarded = | Ship builder = DeSchiMAG, Bremen | Ship original cost = | Ship yard number = W902 | Ship way number = | Ship laid down = 14 January 1936 | Ship launched = 15 September 1936 | Ship sponsor = | Ship christened = | Ship completed = 8 January 1938 | Ship commissioned = | Ship refit = | Ship struck = | Ship motto = | Ship nickname = | Ship fate = Sunk by mines, 25 January 1942 | 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 }} |} '''Z8 ''Bruno Heinemann''''' was a built for Nazi Germany's ''Kriegsmarine'' in the mid-1930s. After the start of World War II in September 1939, she blockaded the Polish coast and searched neutral shipping for contraband. In late 1939 and early 1940 the ship made three successful minelaying sorties off the English coast that claimed 17 merchant ships. ''Bruno Heinemann'' participated in the early stages of the Norwegian Campaign by transporting troops to the Trondheim area in early April 1940. The ship was transferred to France a year later to escort German ships that used the French ports on the Atlantic coast. She was returning to France in early 1942 when she struck two mines and sank off the coast of Belgium. Provided by Wikipedia