- Derzky class destroyer
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Class overview Operators: Russian Navy
Soviet NavyPreceded by: Novik Succeeded by: Fidonisy class destroyer In commission: 1913–1941 Completed: 9 Lost: 3 General characteristics Type: Destroyer Displacement: 1,100 long tons (1,100 t) standard
1,320 long tons (1,340 t) full loadLength: 98 m (321 ft 6 in) Beam: 9.3 m (30 ft 6 in) Draught: 3.2 m (10 ft 6 in) Propulsion: 2 shaft Brown Boverei turbines
5 boilers
25,500 hpSpeed: 34 knots (39 mph; 63 km/h) Complement: 125 Armament: • 3 × 4 in (100 mm) guns
• 2 × 47 mm AA guns
• 4 × machine guns
• 10 × 18-inch (457 mm) torpedo tubes, (5×2)
• 80 minesService record Part of: Black Sea Fleet The Derzky- or Bespokoiny-class destroyers were built for the Imperial Russian Navy just before World War I. Nine ships were built for the Black Sea Fleet These ships were a derivative of the Novik, but were slightly smaller. These ships were popular with the Russians and effective particularly in the Black Sea, where the Ottoman Navy had no similar ships.
Ships
Ship Builder Launched Fate Bespokoiny
(Turbulent)Nikolayev Navy Yard 31 October 1913 Interned in Bizerte with Wrangel's fleet and scrapped 1924 Derzky
(Impertinent)Nikolayev Navy Yard 15 March 1914 Interned in Bizerte and scrapped 1924 Gnevny
(Furious)Nikolayev Navy Yard 31 October 1913 Interned in Bizerte and scrapped 1924 Pronzitelny
(Shrill)Nikolayev Navy Yard 15 March 1914 Scuttled 18 June 1918 near Novorosiysk Bystry
(Rapid) - renamed FrunzeMetal works, Kherson 7 June 1914 Scuttled to avoid capture in 1919 and raised and repaired by the Soviet Navy. Sunk by Stuka dive bombers on 21 September 1941 Gromki
(Loud)Metal works, Kherson 18 December 1913 Scuttled 18 June 1918 near Novorosiysk Pospeshny
(Hasty)Nikolayev Navy Yard 4 April 1914 Interned in Bizerte and scrapped 1924 Pylki
(Ardent)Metal works, Kherson 28 July 1914 Interned in Bizerte and scrapped 1924 Schastlivy
(Happy)Putilov yard (Nikolayev) 29 March 1914 Grounded 24 October 1919 while being towed to internment See also
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References
- Conway's All the world's Fighting Ships 1906-1922
- M.J Whitley, Destroyers of World War 2, 1988 Cassell Publishing ISBN 1-85409-521-8
Russian naval ship classes of World War IDreadnought battleships Pre-dreadnought battleships Battlecruisers Armored cruisers Light cruisers Protected cruisers Destroyers Submarines - S — Single ship of class
- C — Completed after the war
Categories:- Destroyer classes
- Ships of the Imperial Russian Navy
- Destroyers of the Soviet Navy
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