In
Service: 16 July 1942 to 24 August 1944
Ordered: Builder: F.
Krupp Germaniawerft AG, Kiel
Construction No: 627
Laid down:
1940
Launched: 24 February 1941
Commissioned: 16 July 1942
Type: Destroyer / Zerstörer
Class: Zerstörer 1936A
(Mob)
Displacement: 2,657 tons standard 3,691 tons full load
Length: 127 m
Beam: 12 m
Draft: 4.62 m
Propulsion:
2 × shafts 2 × Wagner geared turbines producing up to 75,638 shp
Propellers: Speed: 35.5 knots
Range: 2,950 nautical
miles at 19 knots
Crew: 330 men and officers
Armament:
5 × 15 cm L/48 SK C/36
carried 600 rounds
4 × 3.7 cm L/83
SK C/30
carried 8000 rounds
10 × 2 cm MG L/65 C/30
carried 20000
rounds
8 × 53.3 cm torpedo tubes
12 × torpedo's carried
Armour Aircraft: Electronics: Operators:
Kriegsmarine
Variants: Other: Destroyers
Articles: 16 July 1942 The destroyer Z37 is commissioned.
30 January 1944 The destroyer Z37 is damaged in a collision with Z32.
24 August 1944 The destroyer Z37 is towed into Bordeaux and scuttled.
Position 44° 50N 00° 34W.
1949 The destroyer Z37 is
broken up, and scrapped.
Georg
Langheld
Takes command on July 1942
Ends command on October 1943
Helmut
von Mantey
Takes command on October 1943
Ends command on March 1944
Otto
Ullrich
Takes command on March 1944
Ends command on July 1944
Otto
Heppe
Takes command on July 1944
Ends command on August 1944
German
Warships, 1815-1945: Major Surface Vessels.
ISBN-10: 0851775330
German
Warships, 1815-1945: U-boats and Mine Warfare Vessels.
ISBN-10: 155750301X
German warships of the Second World War.
ISBN-10: 0668040378
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