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Ships · Germany · 1937-1945

Type 1934 destroyer

destroyer

Germany's first standard destroyer class of the rebuilding Kriegsmarine, oversized and over-gunned for their hulls with troublesome high-pressure steam machinery; several were lost in the desperate naval Battles of Narvik in April 1940.

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displacement2,259 tonnes (standard), 3,207 full load
main armament5x 12.7cm guns
built4

Battle of the Atlantic, Eastern Front

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