Fidonisy-class destroyer

Class overview

Name:	Fidonisy class
Builders:	Russud Shipyard, Nikolaev
Operators:	Imperial Russian Navy Soviet Navy Bulgarian Navy
Preceded by:	Derzky class
In commission:	1916–1956
Planned:	20
Completed:	8
Cancelled:	12
Lost:	7
Scrapped:	1
General characteristics (as built)
Type:	Destroyer
Displacement:	1,329 long tons (1,350 t) standard 1,700 long tons (1,700 t) full load
Length:	102 m (334 ft 8 in)
Beam:	9.5 m (31 ft 2 in)
Draught:	3.0 m (9 ft 10 in)
Installed power:	32,500 shaft horsepower (24,200 kW) 5 Thornycroft boilers
Propulsion:	2 shafts; 2 steam turbines
Speed:	33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Range:	1,800 nmi (3,300 km; 2,100 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement:	168
Armament:	4 × single 102 mm (4 in) guns 2 × single 40 mm AA gun 4 × triple 457 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes 80 mines
Service record
Part of:	Black Sea Fleet

The Fidonisy or Kerch class were a group of destroyers built for the Black Sea Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy during World War I. They were a slightly enlarged version of the Derzky-class destroyers, with an extra 102-millimetre (4 in) gun and more torpedo tubes. These ships fought in World War I, the Russian Civil War, and World War II.

Design and description

The Fidonisy-class ships measured 102 metres (334 ft 8 in) long overall with a beam of 9.5 metres (31 ft 2 in) and had a maximum draft (ship) of 3 meters (9 ft 10 in). They displaced 1,329 metric tons (1,308 long tons) at normal load.

Ships

All ships were originally named after battles from the wars between Russia and the Ottoman Empire.

Ship	Launched	Fate
Fidonisi	31 May 1916	Scuttled 16 June 1918
Gadzhibei	27 August 1916	Scuttled 16 June 1918
Kaliakria - renamed Dzerzhinski	27 August 1916	Scuttled in 1918, raised and repaired by the Soviet Navy 1925, Sunk 13 May 1942
Kerch	31 May 1916	Scuttled 16 June 1918
Korfu - renamed Zhelezniakov	1924	Broken up 1956
Levkas - renamed Shaumyan	1924	lent to the Bulgarian Navy after World war II, sunk 10 April 1942
Tserigo	1917	Interned in Bizerte with Wrangel's fleet and scrapped 1924
Zante renamed Nyezamozhnik	1917	Scuttled 1919, refloated 1923, broken up 1950s

Dzerzhinskiy
Nezamozhnik
Shaumyan

Bibliography

Chesneau, Roger, ed. (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
Friedman, Norman (2011). Naval Weapons of World War One. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK: Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84832-100-7.
Gardiner, Robert & Gray, Randal, eds. (1984). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1906–1921. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.
Watts, Anthony J. (1990). The Imperial Russian Navy. London: Arms and Armour. ISBN 0-85368-912-1.
Whitley, M. J. (1988). Destroyers of World War Two. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-326-1.

External links

Media related to Gadzhibey class destroyer at Wikimedia Commons

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

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