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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
T37			Schichau, Elbing	1943	29.4.1944	---	scuttled incomplete  26.7.1946
T38			Schichau, Elbing	1943	17.6.1944	---	scuttled incomplete  26.7.1946
T39			Schichau, Elbing	1943	22.7.1944	---	scuttled incomplete  26.7.1946
T40			Schichau, Elbing	1943	2.9.1944	---	scuttled incomplete 23.3.1945
T41			Schichau, Elbing	1943	12.9.1944	---	scuttled incomplete 1945
T42			Schichau, Elbing	1943	10.10.1944	---	scuttled incomplete 1945
T43			Schichau, Elbing	1943	---	---	BU incomplete 3.1945
T44			Schichau, Elbing	1944	---	---	BU incomplete 3.1945
T45			Schichau, Elbing	1944	---	---	BU incomplete 3.1945
T46			Schichau, Elbing	1944	---	---	BU incomplete 3.1945
T47			Schichau, Elbing	1944	---	---	BU incomplete 3.1945
T48			Schichau, Elbing	1944	---	---	BU incomplete 3.1945
T49			Schichau, Elbing	1944	---	---	BU incomplete 3.1945
T50			Schichau, Elbing	1944	---	---	BU incomplete 3.1945

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1493
Displacement full, t	2155
Length, m	102.0 wl 106.0 oa
Breadth, m	10.7
Draught, m	2.94
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Wagner geared steam turbines, 4 Wagner boilers
Power, h. p.	40000
Max speed, kts	34
Fuel, t	oil 582
Endurance, nm(kts)	6500(19)
Armament	4 x 1 - 105/42 SK C/32, 2 x 2 - 37/69 FlaK M/42, 1 x 4 - 20/65 C/38, 2 x 2 - 20/65 C/38, 2 x 3 - 533 TT, 4 DCT, 6 DCR (32), 50 mines
Electronic equipment	FuMO 33, FuMO 63, FuMO 231 radars, S-Gerät sonar, GHG hydrophone, FuMB 3 Bali, FuMB 4 Sumatra ECM suites
Complement	206

Project history

Improved and enlarged variant of type 1939, would had optical/electronic rangefinders developed previously for 1944 type destroyer, but with old artillery types. T40 - 50 were destroyed by builders when Red Army approached Elbing, almost completed T37 - 39 were transferred to USA and scuttled.