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GARLAND destroyer (1936/1940)

Garland 1942

Garland 1942

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Garland (ex-Garland) H37 651 Fairfield, Govan, UK 8/1934 24.10.1935 3/1936 // 5.1940 to UK 9.1946 (Garland)
  

Displacement standard, t

1340

Displacement full, t

1900

Length, m

95.1 pp 98.5 oa

Breadth, m

10.1

Draught, m

3.80

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Admiralty 3-drum boilers

Power, h. p.

34000

Max speed, kts

36

Fuel, t

443 - 461 oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 5530(15)

Armament

4 x 1 - 120/45 QF MkIX, 1 x 1 - 76/45 20cwt QF Mk I/II/III/IV, 2 x 4 - 12.7/62, 1 x 4 - 533 TT, 2 DCT, 1 DCR (20 DC), mechanical minesweeping gear

Electronic equipment

type 121 sonar

Complement

145

Project history: British destroyer Garland of G class, transferred to Polish Navy 3.5.1940.

Modernizations: 1941: - 1 x 1 - 120/45; + 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 2 DCT (70 DC totally)

1941 - 1942: presumably + type 271, type 286/P radars

1943: - 1 x 1 - 120/45, 1 x 1 - 76/45, 2 x 4 - 12.7/62, type 124 sonar; + 2 x 1 - 57/47 6pdr 10cwt QF Mk I, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL (70 - 125 DC), type 144 sonar

1943 - 1944: presumably - type 286/M/P radar; + type 291 radar

1944: - 2 x 1 - 20/70; + 2 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV

Naval service: Garland was returned to Britain in 1947, but the same year sold to Netherlands and renamed Marnix.

Garland 1944

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ivan Gogin, 2009-15