Type 1934A-class destroyer

The Type 34A class destroyer consisted of a dozen ships laid down between July and November 1935. They were only slightly modified from the design of the preceding 1934 class and continued their predecessors' limited endurance and magazine capacity - factors which contributed to the heavy German losses at the Second Battle of Narvik. Five survived the war.

Design and description
The ships had an overall length of 119 m and was 114 m long at the waterline. They had a beam of 11.3 m, and a maximum draft of 4.23 m. She displaced 2171 LT at standard load and 3110 LT at deep load. The Wagner geared steam turbines were designed to produce 70000 shp which would propel the ship at 36 kn. Steam was provided to the turbines by six Wagner or Benson boilers with superheaters. The Wagner boilers had a pressure of 70 kg/cm2 and a working temperature of 460 °C while the Benson boilers used 110 kg/cm2 at 510 °C. The Type 1934A carried a maximum of 752 t of fuel oil which was intended to give a range of 4400 nmi at 19 kn, but the ship proved top-heavy in service and 30% of the fuel had to be retained as ballast low in the ship. The effective range proved to be only 1825 nmi at 19 kn.

The Type 1934A class ships carried five 12.7 cm SK C/34 guns in single mounts with gun shields, two each superimposed, fore and aft. The fifth gun was carried on top of the rear deckhouse. Her anti-aircraft armament consisted of four 3.7 cm SK C/30 guns in two twin mounts abreast the rear funnel and six 2 cm C/30 guns in single mounts. The ship carried eight above-water 53.3 cm torpedo tubes in two power-operated mounts. Four depth charge throwers were mounted on the sides of the rear deckhouse and they were supplemented by six racks for individual depth charges on the sides of the stern. Enough depth charges were carried for either two-four patterns of 16 charges each. Mine rails were fitted on the rear deck that had a maximum capacity of 60 mines.