German destroyer Z34

History

Nazi Germany
Name:	Z34
Ordered:	19 September 1939
Builder:	AG Weser (Deschimag), Bremen
Yard number:	W1004
Laid down:	15 January 1941
Launched:	5 May 1942
Completed:	5 June 1943
Captured:	6 May 1945
Fate:	Scuttled, 26 March 1946
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type:	Type 1936A (Mob) destroyer
Displacement:	2,657 long tons (2,700 t) (standard) 3,691 long tons (3,750 t) deep load
Length:	127 m (416 ft 8 in) o/a
Beam:	12 m (39 ft 4 in)
Draft:	4.62 m (15 ft 2 in)
Installed power:	70,000 PS (51,000 kW; 69,000 shp) 6 × water-tube boilers
Propulsion:	2 × shafts 2 × geared steam turbine sets
Speed:	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range:	2,950 nmi (5,460 km; 3,390 mi) at 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph)
Complement:	332
Armament:	1 × twin, 2 × single 15 cm (5.9 in) guns 2 × twin 3.7 cm (1.5 in) anti-aircraft guns 7 × single 2 cm (0.8 in) AA guns 2 × quadruple 53.3 cm (21 in) torpedo tubes 60 mines

Z34 was a Type 1936A (Mob) destroyer built for the Kriegsmarine during World War II.

Notes

References

Gröner, Erich (1990). German Warships: 1815–1945. Volume 1: Major Surface Warships. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-790-9.
Koop, Gerhard & Schmolke, Klaus-Peter (2003). German Destroyers of World War II. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-307-1.
Rohwer, Jürgen (2005). Chronology of the War at Sea 1939-1945: The Naval History of World War Two (Third Revised ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-119-2.
Whitley, M. J. (1991). German Destroyers of World War Two. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-302-8.

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Kriegsmarine destroyers

Type 1936 destroyers

Kriegsmarine

Type 1936	Z17 Diether von Roeder Z18 Hans Lüdemann Z19 Hermann Künne Z20 Karl Galster Z21 Wilhelm Heidkamp Z22 Anton Schmitt

Type 1936A "Narvik"	Z23 Z24 Z25 Z26 Z27 Z28 Z29 Z30

Type 1936A "Mob"	Z31 Z32 Z33 Z34 Z37 Z38 Z39

Type 1936B	Z35 Z36 Z40 Z41 Z42 Z43 Z44 Z45

Type 1936C	Z46 Z47 Z48 Z49 Z50

French Navy

Léopard (ex-Z23)
Hoche (ex-Z25)
Marceau (ex-Z31)
(ex-DD-939)

Soviet Navy

Prochny (ex-Z20 Karl Galster)
Provorniy (ex-Z33)

Royal Navy

(ex-Z30)
HMS Nonsuch (ex-Z38)

United States Navy

DD-939 (ex-Z39)

Preceded by: Type 1934
Followed by: Type 1938A

List of destroyers of the Kriegsmarine

Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1946

Shipwrecks	1 Jan: USS Dorsey 2 Jan: U-516, U-2502 3 Jan: Empire Tigachi, U-825, U-2336, U-2351 5 Jan: U-541, U-901, U-2506 6 Jan: U-1109, U-2356 7 Jan: U-1010, U-1023, U-2511 8 Jan: HMS Safari 14 Jan: USS Snowbell, USS Southard 28 Jan: Bluenose January (unknown date): Akagi Maru 2 Feb: U-764 3 Feb: I-505 5 Feb: U-1228 10 Feb: U-975 12 Feb: I-501, U-3514 14 Feb: Fulham VII 15 Feb: I-502, I-506 February (unknown date): U-1197 1 Mar: Sackett's Harbor 4 Mar: USS Extricate 11 Mar: USS Roche 16 Mar: Karl Leonhardt 26 Mar: Z34 1 Apr: I-58, I-156, I-157, I-158, I-159, I-402 4 Apr: USS S-35 5 Apr: I-202 8 Apr: USS Despatch 9 Apr: Empire Bridge 16 Apr: I-503, I-504 21 Apr: Empire Christopher 30 Apr: RO-500, USS Solar, HMS Stubborn, HMAS Tolga 8 May: I-153, I-154, I-155 14 May: USS Bellona 23 May: I-201 24 May: DD-224 (ex-USS Stewart) 28 May: I-14 31 May: I-401 4 Jun: I-400, Kunashiri 7 Jun: Kamikaze 8 Jun: Myōkō 9 Jun: USS Solar 1 Jul: USS Anderson, USS Carlisle, USS Gilliam, USS Lamson, Sakawa 25 Jul: USS Apogon, USS Arkansas, USS LSM-60, USS Pilotfish, USS Saratoga, USS Skipjack 30 Jul: Nagato 2 Aug: Empire Cross 19 Sep: Ohio 17 Oct: HMAS Waree 19 Oct: Takao 13 Nov: U-977 20 Nov: Albany 27 Nov: Lasknes 2 Dec: HMCS Middlesex 8 Dec: Liberté, HMS Saltburn 16 Dec: Leipzig, Z29 22 Dec: Prinz Eugen 26 Dec: USAT Brigadier General M. G. Zalinski 31 Dec: Monte Pascoal, Schwabenland

Other incidents	14 Feb: Alfred Victory 8 May: HMS Orion (Corfu Channel incident), HMS Superb (Corfu Channel incident) 15 May: HMS Diomede 1 Jul: Prinz Eugen 25 Jul: Nagato ,Prinz Eugen Jul: Patrick Henry 22 Oct: HMS Mauritius (Corfu Channel incident), HMS Leander (Corfu Channel incident);HMS Saumarez (Corfu Channel incident), HMS Volage (Corfu Channel incident) 12 Nov: HMS Ocean (Corfu Channel incident) 8 Dec: Empire Eden

1945 1947 December 1945

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