Z20 Karl Galster

Survived

Type	Destroyer
Class	Type 1936
Later service	Prochnyy (Soviet Navy)
War	Second World War
Main guns	5 × 5″ guns

The only Type 1936 left after Narvik, missed because she was refitting. Served in France, Norway and the Arctic, carried refugees in the Baltic in 1945, and was given to the Soviet Union as Prochnyy.

Drawing of the german „Zerstörer 1936-class destroyer Z20 as it appeared in 1945. SVG Testing Photo: Alexpl, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

5 × single 12.7 cm (5 in) guns
2 × twin 3.7 cm (1.5 in) AA guns
7 × single 2 cm (0.79 in) AA guns
2 × quadruple 53.3 cm (21 in) torpedo tubes
4 × depth charge throwers
60 mines

Builder	AG Weser (Deschimag), Bremen
Laid down	14 September 1936
Launched	15 June 1937
Displacement	2,411 long tons (2,450 t) (standard) 3,415 long tons (3,470 t) (deep load)
Length	125.1 m (410 ft 5 in) (o/a)
Speed	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Complement	323