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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Hoche (ex-Z25)	T02, 1950- D602	959	Deschimag, Bremen, Germany	2/1939	16.3.1940	11/1940 // 2.1946	stricken 1.1958

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2543
Displacement full, t	3543
Length, m	121.9 wl 127.0 oa
Breadth, m	12.0
Draught, m	4.62
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Deschimag geared steam turbines, 6 Wagner boilers
Power, h. p.	70000
Max speed, kts	36
Fuel, t	oil 791
Endurance, nm(kts)	2500(19)
Armament	1 x 2 - 149/48 Tbts KC/36T, 2 x 1 - 149/48 Tbts KC/36, 2 x 2 - 37/83 SK C/30, 6 x 1 - 37/57 FlaK M/43, 2 x 4 - 20/65 C/38, 2 x 2 - 20/65 C/38, 2 x 4 - 533 TT, 4 DCT, 60 mines
Electronic equipment	FuMO 24 radar, S-Gerät, GHG sonars
Complement	320 - 332

Project history

Ex-German destroyer of 1936A type taken over by reparations.

Modernizations

1956: - 1 x 2 - 149/48, 2 x 2 - 37/83, 6 x 1 - 37/57, 2 x 4 - 20/65, 2 x 2 - 20/65, 2 x 4 - 533 TT, FuMO 24 radar; + 1 x 1 - 149/48 Tbts KC/36, 8 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 2 x 3 - 550 TT, new radars

Naval service

No significant events.

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