Destroyer class
Type 1936A destroyer
The class in numbers
- 15 Completed
- 7 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Built
- 1938–1943
- In commission
- 1940–1958
- Preceded by
- Type 1936 destroyer
- Succeeded by
- Type 1936B destroyer
- Subclasses
- Type 1936A, Type 1936A (Mob)
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 2,657 long tons (2,700 t)
- Length
- 127 m (416.7 ft) OA
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Complement
- 321
- Main gun
- 150 mm (5.9 in)
- Armament
- 4 × single or 1 × twin and 3 × single 15 cm (5.9 in) guns
- 2 × twin 3.7 cm AA guns
- 5–10 × 2 cm AA guns
- 2 × quadruple 53.3 cm torpedo tubes
- 4 × depth charge throwers
- 60 × mines
Sources
- Facts harvested from Type 1936A destroyer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.