Derzky-class destroyer

The Derzky or Bespokoiny-class destroyers was a class of destroyers 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.

Class overview
Operators	Imperial Russian Navy  Soviet Navy
Preceded by	Novik
Succeeded by	Fidonisy class
In commission	1913–1941
Completed	9
Lost	3
General characteristics
Type	Destroyer
Displacement	1,100 long tons (1,118 t) standard 1,320 long tons (1,341 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)
Installed power	5 boilers 19,000 kW (25,500 hp)
Propulsion	2 shaft Brown Boverei turbines
Speed	34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Complement	125
Armament	3 × 102 mm (4.0 in) guns 2 × 47 mm (1.9 in) AA guns 4 × machine guns 10 × 457 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes, (5 × 2) 80 mines
Service record
Part of:	Black Sea Fleet

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

Bibliography

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External links

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