German destroyer Z20 Karl Galster

German destroyer Z20 Karl Galster
Career (Nazi Germany)
Name:	Z20 Karl Galster
Namesake:	Karl Galster
Ordered:	6 January 1935
Builder:	DeSchiMAG, Bremen
Yard number:	W922
Laid down:	14 September 1936
Launched:	15 June 1937
Completed:	21 March 1939
Fate:	Scrapped, 1956
General characteristics
Class & type:	Type 1936-class destroyer
Displacement:	2,806 tonnes (2,762 long tons) (standard)
Length:	125.1 m (410 ft 5 in) o/a
Beam:	11.75 m (38 ft 7 in)
Draft:	4.5 m (14 ft 9 in)
Installed power:	70,000 shp (52,000 kW)
Propulsion:	2 × shafts 2 × Wagner geared steam turbine sets 6 × Wagner water-tube boilers
Speed:	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range:	2,090 nmi (3,870 km; 2,410 mi) at 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph)
Complement:	323
Armament:	5 × 1 - 12.7 cm (5 in) guns 2 × 2 - 3.7 cm (1.5 in) anti-aircraft guns 7 × 1 - 2 cm (0.8 in) AA guns 2 × 4 - 53.3 cm (21 in) torpedo tubes 60 mines

Service record
Commanders:	Theodor von Bechtolsheim

Z20 Karl Galster was a Type 1936-class destroyer built for the Kriegsmarine in the late 1930s.

References

• Gröner, Erich (1990). German Warships: 1815–1945. Volume 1: Major Surface Warships. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-790-9. 
• Haarr, Geirr H. (2009). The German Invasion of Norway, April 1940. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-310-9. 
• Koop, Gerhard; Schmolke, Klaus-Peter (2003). German Destroyers of World War II. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-307-1. 
• Rohwer, Jürgen (2005). Chronology of the War at Sea 1939-1945: The Naval History of World War Two (Third Revised ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-119-2. 
• Whitley, M. J. (1991). German Destroyers of World War Two. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-302-8. 

External links

• Kriegsmarine destroyers