Gromkiy 1917
Frunze 1940
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Счастливый [Schastlivyy] | Putilov, St. Petersburg // Vaddon, Kherson | 10.1913 // early 1914 | 29.3.1914 | 5.1915 | captured by Germany 1.5.1918 (R01) | ||
| Быстрый [Bystryy], 2.1925- Фрунзе [Frunze] | Metal Wks, Kolpino // Vaddon, Kherson | 10.1913 // early 1914 | 7.6.1914 | 5.1915 | captured by Germany 1.5.1918 (R02), re-captured by Red Army 29.4.1919, captured by White Army 24.6.1919, abandoned 11.1920, re-commissioned by Red Fleet 12.1927, sunk 21.9.1941 | ||
| Громкий [Gromkiy] | Nevskiy Wks, St. Petersburg // Nikolayev Admiralty | 11.1912 // 10.1913 | 18.12.1913 | 5.1915 | scuttled 17.6.1918 | ||
| Пылкий [Pylkiy] | Metal Wks, Kolpino // Vaddon, Kherson | 10.1913 // late 1913 | 28.7.1914 | 6.1915 | captured by Germany 19.6.1918, to White Army 10.1920, interned by France 29.12.1920 | ||
| Поспешный [Pospeshnyy] | Nevskiy Wks, St. Petersburg // Nikolayev Admiralty | 11.1912 // 7.1913 | 4.4.1914 | 9.1915 | captured by Germany 19.6.1918, to White Army 11.1918, interned by France 29.12.1920 |
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Displacement normal, t |
1110 |
|
Displacement full, t |
1450 |
|
Length, m |
98.0 |
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Breadth, m |
9.30 |
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Draught, m |
3.41 |
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No of shafts |
2 |
|
Machinery |
Schastlivyy, Gromkiy, Pospeshnyy: 2 AEG steam turbines, 5 Vulkan boilers Bystryy, Pylkiy: 2 Brown-Boveri steam turbines, 5 Thornycroft boilers |
|
Power, h. p. |
23000 |
|
Max speed, kts |
34 |
|
Fuel, t |
oil 390 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 1800(16) |
|
Armament |
3 x 1 - 102/60, 2 x 1 - 7.6/94, 5 x 2 - 450 TT, 80 mines |
|
Complement |
112 |
Project history: Large batch of turbine-driven
destroyers of Imperial Russian Navy. Built in
many series with foreign technical help and possessed a number inter-subclass differences.
Common for all ships were artillery (102mm/60 guns), powerful torpedo side salvo (from 8 to 12 450mm
torpedoes in twin-and triple mounts) and, except for a lead ship,
twin-shaft turbine machinery and a three-funnel outline profile.
Novik was built under the design of Putilov plant and was equipped
with triple-shaft Curtis-AEG-Vulkan machinery and 6 Vulkan boilers. At the moment of commission
she was one of the largest (1260t), well armed (4 102mm guns and 4 twin 450mm TTs) and fastest ships of this
type in the world. On trials she shown average 36.3kts speed (maximum 37.3kts) at 41910hp.
On her construction basis for Black Sea Fleet series of Schastlivy class
was designed. They differed by machinery structure (2 shafts and 5 boilers), moderated to 30kts
speed and armament structure: 3 102mm guns and 5 twin TTs.
Modernizations: 1916, all: + 2 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss AA, 2 x 1 - 7.6/94
1927, Frunze: - 5 x 2 - 450 TT, 4 x 1 - 7.6/94; + 1 x 1 - 102/60, 1 x 1 - 76/28 8K, 3 x 3 - 450 TT, 2 DCR (16), mine stowage decreased to 40.
1940, Frunze: + 1 x 1 - 45/43 21K, 2 x 1 - 12.7/79
Naval service: Gromkiy was scuttled 17.6.1918 at Novorossiysk by order of Bolsheviks. Schastlivy, Pylkiy and Pospeshny in 1919 were withdrawn abroad. Schastlivy sank under tow in Aegean sea, remaining ships were returned to the Whites and in November, 1920 were withdrawn to Bizerte where they were BU. Damaged Bystry has been abandoned at Sevastopol; after the Civil war she was commissioned by Soviet Navy.
Frunze 21.9.1941 was sunk by German aircraft at Tendra plait (Crimea)
Pospeshnyy
Gromkiy 1916
Frunze
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