Kriegsmarine — Destroyer class
Gerard Callenburgh-class destroyer
Gerard Callenburgh class
The class in numbers
- 4 Planned
- 2 Completed
- 2 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navies
- Kriegsmarine 2
Royal Netherlands Navy 1 - Built
- 1937–1940
- In commission
- 1941–1944
- Preceded by
- Admiralen-class destroyer
- Succeeded by
- Holland-class destroyer
- Operators
- Netherlands
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As designed (see text
- Displacement, standard
- 1,604 long tons (1,630 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,228 long tons (2,264 t)
- Length
- 107 m (351 ft)
- Speed
- 37.5 knots (69.5 km/h, 43.2 mph)
- Complement
- 158
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
- Armament
- 5 × 120 mm guns (2 × 2 & 1 × 1)
- 4 × 40 mm AA guns
- 4 × 12.7 mm/62 Vickers Mk III machine guns
- 8 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (2 × 4)
- Mines & depth charges
- (Note: When Gerard Callenburgh was taken by the Germans [ZH1] she had a different armament, and Isaac Sweers was completed in England)
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| German destroyer ZH1 | 1942 | Scuttled 1944 | |
| HNLMS Gerard Callenburgh (1939) | 1939 | 1942 | Scuttled 1944 |
| HNLMS Isaac Sweers (1940) | 1940 | 1941 | Sunk 1942 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Gerard Callenburgh-class destroyer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.