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PREMUDA destroyer (1932/1941)

Dubrovnik 1941

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Premuda (ex-Dubrovnik) PD   Yarrow, Scotstoun, UK 6.1930 11.10.1931 1932 // 4.1941 captured by Germany 8.9.1943 (TA32)

 

Displacement standard, t

2100

Displacement full, t

2884

Length, m

105.2 pp 113.2 oa

Breadth, m

10.7

Draught, m

3.58 mean

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

48000

Max speed, kts

37

Fuel, t

oil 528

Endurance, nm(kts) 4690(18)

Armament

4 x 1 - 140/56 Škoda, 1 x 1 - 120/15 OTO 1934, 1 x 2 - 37/54 Breda 1938, 4 x 1 - 20/65 Breda 1940, 2 x 3 - 533 TT, 2 DCT

Electronic equipment presumably sonar

Complement

204

Project history: Former Yugoslavian destroyer Dubrovnik, surrendered 17.4.1941 and till January, 1942 passed modernization. In the mid-1943 she was again put on repair, in which course it was supposed to change artillery to 135mm/45 guns and 37mm/54 and 20mm/70 MGs. It was planned to remove one TT bank for overload compensation.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Premuda was captured 8.9.1943 by German troops at Genoa during repair, renamed TA32 and 24-25.4.1945 scuttled at Genoa. After war she was salvaged and returned to Yugoslavia.

Premuda 1943

 

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