ZH1 1943
ZH1 1944
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| ZH1 (ex-Gerard Callenburgh) | 208 | Rotterdamsche Droogdock Mij, Netherlands // Blohm & Voss, Hamburg | 10.1938 | 9.5.1940 | 10.1942 | sunk 9.6.1944 | |
| ZH2 (ex-Tjerk Hiddes) | 207 | Rotterdamsche Droogdock Mij, Netherlands // Blohm & Voss, Hamburg | 11.1938 | 12.10.1939 | --- | cancelled 8.1941 |
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Displacement standard, t |
1864 |
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Displacement full, t |
2228 |
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Length, m |
105.2 wl 106.7 oa |
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Breadth, m |
10.6 |
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Draught, m |
3.11 |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
Werkspoor-Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Yarrow boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
45000 |
|
Max speed, kts |
36 |
|
Fuel, t |
oil 520 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 2700(19) |
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Armament |
2 x 2 - 120/45 Mk 8, 1 x 1 - 120/45 Mk 8, 2 x 2 - 37/80 SK C/30, 4 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 2 x 4 - 533 TT, 4 DCT (30), 24 mines |
| Electronic equipment | hydrophone |
|
Complement |
230 |
Project history: Former Dutch destroyer Gerard Callenburg of Isaak Sweers class. She was scuttled in Rotterdam incomplete 14.5.1940, salvaged by Germans 17.7.1940, renamed ZH1 and 11.10.1940 towed off to Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, for repair and completion. Sister-ships ZH2 (ex-Tjerk Hiddes) and ZH3 (ex-Van Galen) were never completed.
British-type machinery consisted from Yarrow boilers and Parsons turbines has been retained for comparison with machinery of modern German destroyers. On trials ZH1 made 37.5kts at 53000hp. Main guns and fire control system of the Dutch production are left without changes, AA guns and TTs were replaced by German. Main gun director turn angle sector 135° on each side that did not allow to control fire on stern relative bearings.
Modernizations: 1943: + FuMO 24 radar, FuMB 3 Bali, FuMB 4 Sumatra ECM suites
1944: - 2 x 1 - 20/65; + 2 x 4 - 20/65 C/38
Naval service: ZH1 was lost 9.6.1944 in battle against British destroyers Tartar and Ashanti off Ushant.
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