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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Z52		1110	Deschimag, Bremen	1943	---	---	cancelled 6.7.1944
Z53		1111	Deschimag, Bremen	1943	---	---	cancelled 6.7.1944
Z54		1112	Deschimag, Bremen	1943	---	---	cancelled 6.7.1944
Z55		1113	Deschimag, Bremen	1943	---	---	cancelled 6.7.1944
Z56		1114	Deschimag, Bremen	1943	---	---	cancelled 6.7.1944

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	3170
Displacement full, t	3703
Length, m	126.0 wl 132.1 oa
Breadth, m	12.6
Draught, m	4.14
No of shafts	2
Machinery	8 MAN 2-stroke double action diesels
Power, h. p.	76000
Max speed, kts	37.5
Fuel, t	diesel oil 640
Endurance, nm(kts)	6800(19)
Armament	3 x 2 - 128/42 KM41, 3 x 1 - 55/77 Gerät 58, 7 x 2 - 30/73 FlaK 103, 2 x 4 - 533 TT (16), 4 DCT (30), 60 mines
Electronic equipment	FuMO 32, FuMO 63K, 2x FuMO 231 radars, S-Gerät sonar, GHG hydrophone, FuMB 3 Bali, FuMB 6 Palau ECM suites
Complement	320

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Project history

Most modern German destroyer design of WWII era. Ships would have been diesel-powered and armed with all guns of new generation. Main guns would have been radar-controlled from USN-style optical/electronic rangefinder cupolas. Bomb damages and shortage of materials followed to very low building rate. Building was suspended in 1944, later cancelled and all ships were broken up on slip.