She was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea off Heligoland, Germany by HMS Sturgeon on 20 November 1939.

It drove a single screw propeller via a low-pressure turbine, double reduction gearing and a hydraulic coupling.

[1] Gauleiter Telschow was built as yard number 265 by Schiffbau-Gesellschaft Unterweser AG, Wesermünde, Germany.

[4] On 12 September 1939, she was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine and commissioned with 2 Vorpostenflotille as the Vorpostenboot V 206 Gauleiter Telschow.

[4] On 20 November 1939, Gauleiter Telschow was on patrol with V 210 R. Walther Darré when they were sighted by HMS Sturgeon.