Derzky-class destroyer

Class overview

Operators:	Russian Navy Soviet Navy
Preceded 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 load
Length:	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 hp
Speed:	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 mines

Service 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 Frunze	Metal 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

Pospeshnyy
Pylkiy

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 I

Dreadnought battleships	Gangut Imperatritsa Mariya Imperator Nikolai I^S

Pre-dreadnought battleships	Ekaterina II Imperator Aleksandr II Petropavlovsk Tri Sviatitelia^S Rostislav^S Tsesarevich^S Borodino Peresvet Potemkin^S Evstafi Andrei Pervozvanny

Battlecruisers	Borodino^X

Armored cruisers	Rossia^S Gromoboi^S Bayan Rurik^S

Light cruisers	Svetlana^C Admiral Nakhimov^C

Protected cruisers	Pallada Askold^S Bogatyr Izumrud

Destroyers	Novik^S Derzky Orfey Izyaslav Fidonisy

Submarines	Delfin^S Som Kasatka Minoga^S Akula^S Karp Kaiman Krab^S Morzh Bars Narval A (AG)

S Single ship of class C Completed after the war X Cancelled

Soviet naval ship classes of World War II

Battleships	Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsiya Arkhangelsk^S^RN Sovetsky Soyuz

Battlecruisers	Kronshtadt

Cruisers	Komintern^S Svetlana Admiral Nakhimov Murmansk^S^USN Tallin (Petropavlovsk)^S Kirov Chapayev

Destroyers	Yakov Sverdlov^S Frunze^S Orfey Izyaslav Fidonisy Leningrad Tashkent Type 7 Type 7U Opytny Ognevoy Town^RN Mărăşti Regele Ferdinand

Guard ships	MO Uragan Yastreb

Motor torpedo boats	Sh-4 G-5 D3

Submarines	D L Shch P S M K A (AG) Kalev Ronis V-1 U

S Single ship of class RN loan from Royal Navy USN loan from United States Navy

Derzky-class destroyer

Ships

See also

References