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 Russian destroyer 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.

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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 (1,100 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)
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

Bibliography

• Breyer, Siegfried (1992). Soviet Warship Development: Volume 1: 1917–1937. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-604-3.
• Budzbon, Przemysław (1985). "Russia". In Gray, Randal (ed.). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. pp. 291–325. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.
• Budzbon, Przemysław (1980). "Soviet Union". In Chesneau, Roger (ed.). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. pp. 318–346. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
• Campbell, John (1985). Naval Weapons of World War II. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-459-4.
• Friedman, Norman (2011). Naval Weapons of World War One. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84832-100-7.
• Hill, Alexander (2018). Soviet Destroyers of World War II. New Vanguard. Vol. 256. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4728-2256-7.
• Rohwer, Jürgen (2005). Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945: The Naval History of World War Two (Third Revised ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-119-2.
• 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 2. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-326-1.
• Yakubov, Vladimir & Worth, Richard (2008). Raising the Red Banner: A Pictorial History of Stalin's Fleet. Gloucestershire, UK: Spellmount. ISBN 978-1-86227-450-1.

External links

Media related to Derzkiy class destroyer at Wikimedia Commons

На других языках

[ru] Эскадренные миноносцы типа «Дерзкий»