Derzky class destroyer
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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 |
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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