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Zerstörer 5 1980

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Z1 (ex-Anthony)	D170		Bath Iron Wks, USA	8.1942	20.12.1942	2/1943 // 17.1.1958	stricken 3.1972
Z2 (ex-Ringgold)	D171		Federal, Kearny, USA	6/1942	11.11.1942	12/1942 // 14.7.1959	to Greece 9.1981 (Κίμων [Kimon])
Z3 (ex-Wadsworth)	D172		Bath Iron Wks, USA	8/1942	10.1.1943	3/1943 // 6.10.1959	to Greece 10.1980 (Νέαρχος [Nearkhos])
Z4 (ex-Claxton)	D178		Consolidated, Orange, USA	7/1941	1.4.1942	12/1942 // 15.12.1959	to Greece 2.1981 (spare parts)
Z5 (ex-Dyson)	D179		Consolidated, Orange, USA	7/1941	15.4.1942	12/1942 // 17.2.1960	to Greece 2.1982 (spare parts)
Z6 (ex-Charles Ausburne)	D180		Consolidated, Orange, USA	5/1941	6.3.1942	11/1942 // 12.4.1960	stricken 10.1967

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2100
Displacement full, t	3120
Length, m	112.5 wl 114.7 oa
Breadth, m	12.1
Draught, m	5.50 full load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets General Electric geared steam turbines, 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	60000
Max speed, kts	32
Fuel, t	oil 540
Endurance, nm(kts)	3450(15)
Armament	4 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 3 x 2 - 76/50 Mk 33, 1 x 5 - 533 TT, 2 - 533 TT, 2 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 15 ASWRL, 1 DCR, mines
Electronic equipment	SPS-6, SPS-10, Mk 25, 2x Mk 34, Mk 35 radars, SQS-29 sonar, WLR-1 ECM suite
Complement	244

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Project history

Former USN Fletcher class destroyers; all were modernized before transfer under MDAP, classified in Bundesmarine as type 119. They received new weapons, new electronics and additional German command systems.

Modernizations

1973-1975, all: - 1 x 5 - 533 TT

1974, Zerstörer 4: - 1 x 2 - 76/50 (aft); + 1 x 1 - 76/62 OTO-Melara Compact (for trials)

1975, Zerstörer 4: - 1 x 1 - 76/62

Naval service

No significant events.