Tashkent 1941
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Ташкент [Tashkent] | 215 | OTO, Livorno, Italy | 1.1937 | 28.11.1937 | 10.1939 | sunk 2.7.1942 |
|
Displacement standard, t |
2893 |
|
Displacement full, t |
3200 |
|
Length, m |
139.8 |
|
Breadth, m |
13.7 |
|
Draught, m |
3.70 |
|
No of shafts |
2 |
|
Machinery |
2 geared steam turbines sets, 2 Yarrow boilers |
|
Power, h. p. |
110000 |
|
Max speed, kts |
39 |
|
Fuel, t |
oil 1072 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 5030(20) |
|
Armament |
as designed: 3 x 2 - 130/50 B-2LM, 6 x 1 - 45/43 21K, 6 x 1 - 12.7/79, 3 x 3 - 533 TT, 2 DCR (25), 80 mines as completed: 3 x 1 - 130/50 B-13, 6 x 1 - 45/43 21K, 6 x 1 - 12.7/79, 3 x 3 - 533 TT, 2 DCR (25), 80 mines |
| Electronic equipment | hydrophone |
|
Complement |
250 |
Project history:
Negotiations with Italian
shipbuilders about building of destroyer leader for the USSR have begun
in 1935 and have come to the end with signing 9.9.1935 of contract with OTO. The
requirements provided considerable improvement of general performances in
comparison with Leningrad: speed not less than 42.5kts, endurance not less of 5000(20)nm, armament
consisted from 3 twin 130mm turret mounts, 6 45mm AA guns and 3 triple 533mm TTs. The armament should be
fitted after arrival of ship to the USSR. 3.2.1936
Italian party presented the project which has received the index 20I. The decision on building
of 3 ships in the USSR was simultaneously accepted, but because of differences in technologies it
was later refused. 18.4.1939 Tashkent was accepted by crew and 6.5.1939 arrived to Odessa.
Ship had an hull with forecastle with appreciable deck sheer to stem and a cruiser-type
stern. Prominent features of the leader were completely covered bow streamlined
superstructure smoothly transferring to fore funnel, and covered storm corridor, allowing to be transferred on all ship
length without an exit to an upper deck. Extremely powerful machinery placed en
echelon. On trials Tashkent reached 43.53kts at 3422t and 130000hp.
Under the project the armament consisted from 3 twin 130mm/50 B-2LM turret mounts,
but because of a protraction of availability of the latter, Tashkent at
commission received temporary armament: 3 single 130mm/50 B-13 guns.
Originally designed guns were
installed in February, 1941.
Modernizations: 2.1941: - 3 x 1 - 130/50 B-13, 6 x 1 - 45/43; + 3 x 2 - 130/50 B-2LM, 6 x 1 - 37/63 70K (as designed)
8/1941: + 1 x 2 - 76/52 39K
Naval service: 27.6.1942 en route from Sevastopol to Novorossiysk Tashkent was hard damaged by German aircraft and 2.7.1942 sunk by German aircraft at Novorossiysk. By summer of 1944 she was salvaged and broken up in 1946-1948.
Tashkent 1939
Tashkent 1941
Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.
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