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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
G37		215	Germaniawerft, Kiel	1914	17.12.1914	6.1915	sunk 4.11.1917
G38		216	Germaniawerft, Kiel	1914	23.12.1914	7.1915	interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919
G39		217	Germaniawerft, Kiel	1914	16.1.1915	8.1915	interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919
G40		218	Germaniawerft, Kiel	1914	27.2.1915	9.1915	interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919
G41		219	Germaniawerft, Kiel	1914	24.4.1915	10.1915	sunk 3.10.1918
G42		220	Germaniawerft, Kiel	1914	20.5.1915	11/1915	sunk 21.4.1917

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	G37 - 40: 822 G41, 42: 960
Displacement full, t	G37 - 40: 1051 G41, 42: 1147
Length, m	G37 - 40: 79.5 oa 78.6 wl G41, 42: 83.0 oa 82.2 wl
Breadth, m	8.36
Draught, m	G37 - 40: 3.74 G41, 42: 3.50
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Germania steam turbines, 3 Marine boilers
Power, h. p.	24000
Max speed, kts	G37 - 40: 34 G41, 42: 33/5
Fuel, t	G37 - 40: oil 299 G41, 42: oil 326
Endurance, nm(kts)	G37 - 40: 1685(17) G41, 42: 1950(17)
Armament	3 x 1 - 88/42 TK L/45 C/14, 2 x 2 - 500 TT, 2 x 1 - 500 TT (8), 24 mines
Complement	87

Standard scale images

Project history

1914 type mobilization destroyers; from G41 on the hull was enlarged during construction by 2.5m with oil storage increased to 326t and range extended.

Modernizations

1916, G42: - 3 x 1 - 88/42; + 3 x 1 - 105/42 Utof L/45 C/16 or TK L/45 C/16

Naval service

G42 was lost in action against British leaders Swift and Broke 21.4.1917 in Dover Straits; G37 was mined 4.11.1917 in the North Sea; G41 was scuttled 3.10.1918 after the German withdrawal from Bruges; G38-40 were scuttled at Scapa Flow, raised and scrapped in 1924-1925.