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Z38's sister ship, Z39, underway under American control, 1945
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German destroyer Z38Nazi Germany
NameZ38
Ordered19 September 1939
BuilderGermaniawerft, Kiel
Yard numberG628
Laid down15 April 1940
Launched15 August 1941
Completed20 March 1943
CapturedMay 1945
FateTransferred to the Royal Navy, September 1945
German destroyer Z38United Kingdom
NameNonsuch
AcquiredSeptember, 1945
Out of serviceSeptember, 1948
FateSold for scrap, 8 November 1949
General characteristics (as built)
Class and typeType 1936A (Mob) destroyer
Displacement
  • 2,519 long tons (2,559 t) (standard)
  • 3,691 long tons (3,750 t) deep load
Length127 m (416 ft 8 in) o/a
Beam12 m (39 ft 4 in)
Draft4 m (13 ft 1 in)
Installed power
  • 70,000 PS (51,000 kW; 69,000 shp)
  • 6 × water-tube boilers
Propulsion
  • 2 × shafts
  • 2 × geared steam turbine sets
Speed38.5 knots (71.3 km/h; 44.3 mph)
Range2,293 nmi (4,247 km; 2,639 mi) at 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph)
Complement332
Armament
  • 1 × twin, 3 × single 15 cm (5.9 in) guns
  • 2 × twin 3.7 cm (1.5 in) AA guns
  • 10 × single 2 cm (0.8 in) AA guns
  • 2 × quadruple 53.3 cm (21 in) torpedo tubes
  • 60 mines

Z38 was a Type 1936A (Mob) destroyer built for the Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was laid down in 1941, and completed two years later. Her anti-aircraft armament was modified heavily under Project Barbara. She served with the 4th Destroyer Flotilla her entire time under German service, and spent much of her life escorting task forces, patrolling, laying mines, and bombarding land forces. She served in the Baltic briefly in 1943, before being reassigned to the Arctic area around Norway from 1943 to 1945, and then serving in the Baltic again in 1945.

After the war, she was taken by the Royal Navy, renamed Nonsuch, the sixth ship of her name. She was used for extensive machinery trials, before being used to test a 500-kilogram (1,100 lb) charge, which broke her keel and flooded her. She was too damaged to refloat, and instead sold to Arnott Young & Co., on 8 November 1949, to be scrapped.

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