Derzky class destroyer

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Destroyer Frunze
Destroyer Frunze

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 drivative 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.

[edit] General characteristics

  • Displacement: 1,100 tons, 1,320 tons full load
  • Length: 98 m
  • Beam: 9.3 m
  • Draught: 3.2 m
  • Machinery: 2 shaft Brown Boverei turbines, 5 boilers 25,500 hp
  • Speed: 34 knots
  • Armament:
    • 3 - 4 inch guns
    • 2 - 47 mm AA guns
    • 4 - machine guns
    • 10 - 18-inch (457 mm) torpedo tubes, (5x2)
    • 80 mines
  • Crew: 125

[edit] Ships

Ship Builder Launched Fate
Bespokoiny (Turbulent) Nikolayev Navy Yard 31 October 1913 Interned in Bizerta and scrapped 1924
Derzki (Impertinent) Nikolayev Navy Yard 15 March 1914 Interned in Bizerta and scrapped 1924
Gnevny (Angry) Nikolayev Navy Yard 31 October 1913 Interned in Bizerta and scrapped 1924
Pronzitelny (Shrill) Nikolayev Navy Yard 15 March 1914 Scuttled 18 June 1918 near Novorosiysk
Bystry (Rapid) - renamed Frunze Metal works, Kherson 7 June 1914 Scuttled to avoid capture in 1919 and raised and repaired by the Soviet Navy. Sunk by Stuka divebombers on 21 September 1941
Gromki (Loud) Metal works, Kherson 18 December 1913 Scuttled 18 June 1918 near Novorosiysk
Pospeshny Nikolayev Navy Yard 4 April 1914 Interned in Bizerta and scrapped 1924
Pylki (Ardent) Metal works, Kherson 28 July 1914 Interned in Bizerta and scrapped 1924
Schastlivy (Happy) Putilov yard (Nikolayev) 29 March 1914 Grounded 24 10 1919 while being towed to internment

[edit] 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