Z52
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Z52 | 1110 | Deschimag, Bremen | 1943 | --- | --- | cancelled 6.7.1944 | |
| Z53 | 1111 | Deschimag, Bremen | 1943 | --- | --- | cancelled 6.7.1944 | |
| Z54 | 1112 | Deschimag, Bremen | 1943 | --- | --- | cancelled 6.7.1944 | |
| Z55 | 1113 | Deschimag, Bremen | 1943 | --- | --- | cancelled 6.7.1944 | |
| Z56 | 1114 | Deschimag, Bremen | 1943 | --- | --- | cancelled 6.7.1944 |
|
Displacement standard, t |
3170 |
|
Displacement full, t |
3703 |
|
Length, m |
126.0 wl 132.1 oa |
|
Breadth, m |
12.6 |
|
Draught, m |
4.14 |
|
No of shafts |
2 |
|
Machinery |
8 MAN 2-stroke double action diesels |
|
Power, h. p. |
76000 |
|
Max speed, kts |
37.5 |
|
Fuel, t |
diesel oil 640 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 6800(19) |
|
Armament |
3 x 2 - 128/42 KM41, 3 x 1 - 55/77 Gerät 58, 7 x 2 - 30/73 FlaK 103, 2 x 4 - 533 TT (16), 4 DCT (30), 60 mines |
| Electronic equipment | FuMO 32, FuMO 63K, 2x FuMO 231 radars, S-Gerät sonar, GHG hydrophone, FuMB 3 Bali, FuMB 6 Palau ECM suites |
|
Complement |
320 |
Project history: Most modern German destroyer design of WWII era. Ships would have been diesel-powered and armed with all guns of new generation. Main guns would have been radar-controlled from USN-style optical/electronic rangefinder cupolas. Bomb damages and shortage of materials followed to very low building rate. Building was suspended in 1944, later cancelled and all ships were broken up on slip.
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