Type 1936B destroyer

The Type 1936B destroyers were five destroyers, Z35, Z36 and Z43 to Z45, built at Bremen by AG Weser of the Deschimag combine for the German Kriegsmarine between 1941 and 1942; orders for three more were cancelled before construction began. The design kept the hull of the Type 1936A but went back to the lighter 12.7 centimetre main guns of the Type 1936 to reduce top weight and improve seakeeping, and carried a much stronger anti-aircraft battery. Only three were completed, Z35 in 1943 and Z36 and Z43 in 1944, and all three served in the Baltic, escorting convoys, laying mines and bombarding Soviet forces. Z35 and Z36 were lost to friendly mines in the Gulf of Finland and Z43 was scuttled in May 1945.