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ZF2 destroyers (1940/-)

Le Hardi 1941

ZF2

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
ZF2 (ex-ZF6, ex-L`Opiniâtre)   207 A C de la Gironde, Bordeaux, France 9.1939 --- --- cancelled 7.1943
ZF7 (ex-L`Aventurier)   208 A C de la Gironde, Bordeaux, France 8.1939 20.4.1947 --- cancelled 6.1941, completed as French hulk
TA34 (ex-FR34, ex-Le Cyclone, ex-Lansquenet)     A C de la Gironde, Bordeaux, France 12.1936 20.5.1939 6.1940 // --- cancelled 13.4.1945, scuttled 5.1945

  

Displacement standard, t

2070

Displacement full, t

2910

Length, m

110.9 wl 113.1 oa

Breadth, m

11.1

Draught, m

3.62

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 sets Rateau-Bretagne geared steam turbines, 4 Sural-Penhoët boilers

Power, h. p.

62000

Max speed, kts

36

Fuel, t

oil 470

Endurance, nm(kts)

ZF2, 7: 1700(20)

TA34: 2760(20)

Armament

1 x 2 - 128/42 KM41, 3 x 1 - 128/42 SK C/34, 2 x 2 - 37/80 SK C/30, 2 x 4 - 20/65 C/38, 2 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 2 x 4 - 533 TT (16), 4 DCT (30)

Electronic equipment FuMO 24 radar, S-Gerät sonar, GHG hydrophone, FuMB 3 Bali, FuMB 4 Sumatra ECM suites

Complement

245

Project history: ex-French destroyers. ZF2 and ZF7 were captured on the stocks. Lansquenet was scuttled in Toulon 27.11.1942 but salvaged by Italians 1943. She was captured by Germans in September 1943, and repair works lasted from June 1944 till April 1945. Ship was scuttled again in May 1945 salvaged again in March 1946 and sold for scrap.

 

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