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Against my usuall style, this time while rotating various real life DD projects for my AU usage, I decided to actually finish the base drawing, so here comes the abortive Flottentorpedoboot 40 desing from WWII Germany



They were ordered from Dutch yards and featured rather un-orthodox features for a german torbedocraft like 3 low pressure boilers, 4 main guns and single funnel. In effect these were destroyers of rather large size, but with typical british A-to-I class ordanace. Due the fortunes of the war, none were completed and never tested, wheter they would have proven superior to the Type 36B class for example.

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Hmm, nice work, and interesting design concept. Do you know what kind of performance they were expected to produce with the low-pressure boilers?

And why were they classified as torpedo boats instead of destroyers? Because they appear to lack ASW gear?

35 knots with 49,500 SHP, so basicly around same that the British L&M class could do with 2 boilers.

And they were mostly classed as torbedoboats for budgetical reasons, and since they were inferior in armamament compared to normal destroyer desings.
And in pre-WWII and in WWII german circles, destroyers weren't ASW units, but destroyers in their traditional role. Having little ASW ability actually would have supported the destroyer designation, rather than be reason for avoid it.

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Awesome drawings! As I understand of Dutch sources, where did have some serieus errors, but the design was worth for Dutch studies!

did the dutch archives BTW mention anything about the orgin of the machinery? was it supposed to be build in Netherlands as well?

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Oh yea, When I got my books back, I'll translate it for you! I am almost sure the boilers where used at The Holland-class.

The machinery was intended for the Dutch destroyers of the Gerard Callenburgh class (the Isaac Sweers was one of them). These engines built in the Rotterdam machinery works of were meant for these "torpedo boats" (in fact more like destroyers), but with the turning tides of war the engines were finally used by the post war Holland class destroyers.

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Nice work!

-Matt

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Very interesting!

A nice rendition of an interesting project. Looks much sleeker than any destroyer the Germans managed to build in that era.

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