German destroyer Z38

History

Nazi Germany
Name:	Z38
Ordered:	19 September 1939
Builder:	Germaniawerft, Kiel
Yard number:	G628
Laid down:	15 April 1940
Launched:	15 August 1941
Completed:	20 March 1943
Captured:	6 May 1945
Fate:	Transferred to the Royal Navy, 1946
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type:	Type 1936A (Mob) destroyer
Displacement:	2,519 long tons (2,559 t) (standard) 3,691 long tons (3,750 t) deep load
Length:	127 m (416 ft 8 in) o/a
Beam:	12 m (39 ft 4 in)
Draft:	4.62 m (15 ft 2 in)
Installed power:	70,000 PS (51,000 kW; 69,000 shp) 6 × water-tube boilers
Propulsion:	2 × shafts 2 × geared steam turbine sets
Speed:	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range:	2,950 nmi (5,460 km; 3,390 mi) at 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph)
Complement:	332
Armament:	1 × twin, 2 × single 15 cm (5.9 in) guns 2 × twin 3.7 cm (1.5 in) anti-aircraft guns 7 × single 2 cm (0.8 in) AA guns 2 × quadruple 53.3 cm (21 in) torpedo tubes 60 mines

Z38 was a Type 1936A (Mob) destroyer built for the Kriegsmarine during World War II.

Notes

Gröner, Erich (1990). German Warships: 1815–1945. Volume 1: Major Surface Warships. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-790-9.
Koop, Gerhard & Schmolke, Klaus-Peter (2003). German Destroyers of World War II. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-307-1.
Rohwer, Jürgen (2005). Chronology of the War at Sea 1939-1945: The Naval History of World War Two (Third Revised ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-119-2.
Whitley, M. J. (1991). German Destroyers of World War Two. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-302-8.

Type 1936	Z17 Diether von Roeder Z18 Hans Lüdemann Z19 Hermann Künne Z20 Karl Galster Z21 Wilhelm Heidkamp Z22 Anton Schmitt

Type 1936A "Narvik"	Z23 Z24 Z25 Z26 Z27 Z28 Z29 Z30

Type 1936A "Mob"	Z31 Z32 Z33 Z34 Z37 Z38 Z39

Type 1936B	Z35 Z36 Z40 Z41 Z42 Z43 Z44 Z45

Type 1936C	Z46 Z47 Z48 Z49 Z50

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