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ZH3 destroyer (1929/-)

Van Galen 1938

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
ZH3 (ex-Van Galen)     Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam, Netherlands 5.1927 28.6.1928 10.1929 // --- repair cancelled 8.1941

  

Displacement standard, t

1316

Displacement full, t

1650

Length, m

93.6 pp 98.2 oa

Breadth, m

9.53

Draught, m

2.97

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

31000

Max speed, kts

32

Fuel, t

oil 330

Endurance, nm(kts) 3300(15)

Armament

4 x 1 - 120/50 Mk 5, 1 x 1 - 75/55 Mk 2, 4 x 1 - 40/39 QF Mk II, 4 x 1 - 12.7/94, 2 x 3 - 533 TT, 4 DCT (40)

Electronic equipment hydrophone

Complement

149

Project history: ex-Dutch destroyer sunk by German aircraft 10.5.1940 off Rotterdam and salvaged by Germans in October. Repair was started but never completed and in October, 1941, ship was scrapped.

 

Ivan Gogin, 2008-14