Dimensions
- Displacement
- 1650 t
- Length
- 98,14 m
- Beam
- 9,53 m
- Draft
- 3,20 m
1650 tDisplacement
98,14 mLength
32 knSpeed
22.10.1929Service status
Wartime history
Capture and fate
The Dutch destroyer Van Galen was sunk in Rotterdam by a near miss of a German air attack on 10.05.1940. The ship was raised in October of the same year and it was decided to repair the ships and put it into German service as ZH3 when the construction of ZH2 would be completed. In August of 1941, this plan was canceled and the ship was broken down in October 1941.
Ship data
Technical profile
Dimensions, armament and machinery.
Armament
- Main battery
- 4 x 12 cm
- Secondary battery
- 1 x 7,5 cm
- Heavy anti-aircraft
- 4 x 4 cm
- Light anti-aircraft
- 4 x 1,3 cm
- Torpedo tubes
- 6 x 53,3 cm torpedoes
- Mines
- 4 DC launcher
Performance
- Machinery and speed
- 31000 shp, 32 kn
Service record
Construction record
- Laid down
- Fijennoord Rotterdam, 1927
- Launched
- 28.06.1928
- Commissioned
- 22.10.1929
- Fate
- scrapped 1941