Z 44

Z 44

Ship data flag  German Empire Ship type destroyer class Destroyer 1936B (Mob) Shipyard Deschimag Weser , Bremen Build number 1030 Keel laying August 1, 1942 Launch January 20, 1944 Whereabouts Scrapped in 1946

Ship dimensions and crew length 127 m ( Lüa ) 121.9 m ( Lpp ) width 12.0 m Draft Max. 3.83 m displacement 2519 ts standard 3542 ts max.   crew 332 men

Machine system machine 6 × steam boiler 2 sets of Deschimag steam turbines Machine performance 70,000 PS (51,485 kW) Top speed 37.5 kn (69 km / h) propeller 2

Armament 5 × 1 12.7-cm SK C / 34 (L / 45) 4 × 2 3.7 cm SK C / 30 (L / 83) 3 × 4 2 cm Flak C / 38 (L / 65) 3 × 1 2 cm flak C / 38 (L / 65) 2 × 4 torpedo tubes Ø 53.3 cm (16 torpedoes) 4 depth charges (30) up to 60 sea ​​mines Sensors 1 GHG (group listening device) 1 Atlas echo sounder 1 swiveling sonar through 160 ° 1 FuMO 21 (GEMA FMG 39 G) 1 fire control radar for artillery 2 radio monitoring devices (FuMB) 1 fire control radar for the flak

Z 44 was a destroyer of the type B 1936 (Mob) of the German navy .

history

The order for the Z 44 was placed on February 17, 1941. Z 44 was the fourth destroyer of the 1936 B (Mob) type. He was at work Weser the Deschimag in Bremen built. The destroyer was another variant of the 1936 destroyer . The type 1936 B (Mob) was therefore not a new development, but largely corresponded to the predecessor types.

A major change in the 1936 B (Mob) type was the return from 15 cm to 12.7 cm rapid fire guns.

The Z 44 was laid down on August 1, 1942 and launched on January 20, 1944. The commissioning of the Z 44 should take place shortly, which means that the ship was structurally finished and the shipyard tests were largely, if not completely, ended when the Z 44 was also badly hit in a heavy bombing raid on Bremen on July 29, 1944 sank in the harbor. Only parts of the superstructure, chimneys and masts of the destroyer protruded from the water.

In February 1945 salvage work began on the warship. In 1946 the Z 44 was scrapped.

literature

• Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung [arr.]: The ships of the German Navy and Air Force 1939–1945 and their whereabouts. Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 2000 (9th, revised and expanded edition), ISBN 978-3763762156 .
• Hans H. Hildebrand / Albert Röhr / Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships: Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present , Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford,
• Wolfgang Harnack: Destroyers under the German flag: 1934 to 1945. Koehler, Hamburg 1997 (3rd, revised edition), ISBN 3-7822-0698-3 .
• Volkmar Kühn: Torpedo boats and destroyers in action 1939–1945. The fight and destruction of a weapon. Flechsig, Würzburg 2006 (6th, ext. A. special edition), ISBN 978-3881896375 .
• Anthony Preston: Superdestroyers- The German Narvik type 1936 , Warship special2, Conway maritime press, Greenwich (1978), pp. 62 ff., ISBN 0-85177-131-9 .
• Mike J. Whitley: Destroyers in World War II: Technique - Class - Types. Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 978-3613014268 .

Web links

• Germany 12.7 cm / 45 (5 ") SK C / 34 on navweaps.com (accessed November 23, 2015)
• Germany 3.7 cm / L83 (1.5 ") SK C / 30 on navweaps.com (accessed April 29, 2014)
• Germany 2 cm / 65 (0.79 ") C / 30 and C / 38 on navweaps.com (English, accessed April 29, 2014)
• "1936B (Mob)" type destroyers 1943/44 (English, accessed October 24, 2015)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Preston: Superdestroyers , p. 69
2. ↑ Hans H. Hildebrand / Albert Röhr / Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German Warships: Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present , Mundus Verlag - licensed edition of Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft Hamburg, without year, pages 159-160