Ognevoy class destroyer
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The Ognevoi class were a series of destroyers built for the Soviet Navy during and immediately after World War II. The Soviet Designation was Project 30 and Project 30A.
The Type 7 destroyers proved to have a less than adequate seaworthiness for Soviet conditions. The soviets decided to build a larger ship with main armament in enclosed turrets. These ships proved popular with the Soviet Navy and formed the basis for the post war Skoryy class destroyer or Project 30bis.
[edit] General characteristics
- Displacement: 1800 tons standard, 2650 tons full load
- Length: 117 m
- Beam: 11.6 m
- Draught: 4.2 m
- Machinery: 2 shaft geared turbines, 3 boilers 60,000 hp
- Speed: 37 knots
- Range: 1700nm at 16 knots
- Armament:
- 4 - 130 mm guns (2 B-2LM twin turrets)
- 2 - 85 mm guns (2x1)
- 6 - 37 mm AA guns
- 8 - 533mm torpedo tubes (2 x 4)
- 80 mines
- Crew: 250
[edit] Ships
Project 30 24 ships were ordered in 1938-40 but the programme was disrupted by the German Invasion in 1941. The ships being built in Nikolayev were demolished before launch or evacuated incomplete while those built in other yards were suspended for the duration of the conflict.
- Ognevoi (Fiery) - built by 61 Kommunar Yard, Nikolayev - hull evacuated to Poti and completed in 1943 the turrets were salvaged from the wreck of the Tashkent. She was scrapped in the 1960s
Project 30A Some of the intact ships were completed after the war to a modified design
- Ozornoi (Mischievous) - built by 61 Kommunar Yard, Nikolayev - hull evacuated to Poti and completed in 1949, given to the Bulgarian Navy in 1956
- Otverzhdyonny (cast out) - built by Sevastapol Navy dockyard, hull evacuated to Poti and completed in 1947, scrapped in the 1960s
- Osmotritelny (Observant) - built by Ordzhinikidze yard, Leningrad, completed 1947, scrapped in the 1960s
- Otlichny - (Excellent) built by Zhdanov yard, Leningrad, completed 1947, scrapped in the 1960s
- Obraztsovy - (Exemplary) - built by Zhdanov yard, Leningrad, completed 1948, scrapped in the 1960s
- Otvazhny - (Courageous) - built by Zhdanov yard, Leningrad, completed 1948, scrapped in the 1960s
- Odyaryonny (Gifted) - built by Zhdanov yard, Leningrad, completed 1949, scrapped in the 1960s
- Otchelivy (Distinct) - built by Molotovsk Yard (Severodvinsk) completed 1949, scrapped in the 1960s
- Stalin - built by Molotovsk Yard (Severodvinsk) completed 1949, scrapped in the 1960s
- Vnushitelny - (Imposing) - built by Dalzavod Komsomolsk-na-Amure, completed 1944, scrapped in the 1960s
- Vlastny - (Powerful ) - built by Dalzavod Komsomolsk-na-Amure, completed 1948, scrapped in the 1960s
- Vynoslivy - (Hardy) - built by Dalzavod Komsomolsk-na-Amure, completed 1948, scrapped in the 1960s
[edit] References
- M.J Whitley, Destroyers of World War 2, 1988 Cassell Publishing ISBN 1-85409-521-8
