NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Desaix (ex-Z5 Paul Jacobi)	T04	899	Deschimag, Bremen, Germany	7/1935	24.3.1936	6/1937 // 2.1946	stricken 2.1954
Kléber (ex-Z6 Theodor Riedel)	T03, 1950- D603	900	Deschimag, Bremen, Germany	7/1935	22.4.1936	7/1937 // 2.1946	stricken 4.1957

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2171
Displacement full, t	3110
Length, m	Desaix: 114.4 wl 119.3 oa Kléber: 114.4 wl 121.3 oa
Breadth, m	11.3
Draught, m	4.23
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Deschimag geared steam turbines, 6 Wagner boilers
Power, h. p.	70000
Max speed, kts	38.2
Fuel, t	oil 715
Endurance, nm(kts)	1825(19)
Armament	Desaix: 4 x 1 - 128/45 SK C/34, 4 x 2 - 37/69 FlaK M42, 2 x 1 - 37/57 FlaK M43, 1 x 4 - 20/65 C/38, 4 x 2 - 20/65 C/38, 1 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 2 x 4 - 533 TT (16), 4 DCT (18), 60 mines Kléber: 5 x 1 - 128/45 SK C/34, 2 x 2 - 37/83 SK C/30, 1 x 4 - 20/65 C/38, 2 x 2 - 20/65 C/38, 6 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 2 x 4 - 533 TT (16), 4 DCT (18), 60 mines
Electronic equipment	FuMO 24, FuMO 63K radars, S-Gerät, GHG sonars
Complement	315

Project history

Ex-German destroyers of 1934A type were taken over by reparations.

Modernizations

1946 - 1947, Desaix: + US-made radars

1948 - 1951, Kléber: - 1 x 1 - 128/45, 2 x 2 - 37/83, 1 x 4 - 20/65, 2 x 2 - 20/65, 6 x 1 - 20/65, FuMO 24, FuMO 63K radars; + 6 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, radars

Naval service

No significant events.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.