Soviet destroyer Skory (1939)
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Skory (Russian: Скорый, lit. 'Fast') was one of 18 Storozhevoy-class destroyers (officially known as Project 7U) built for the Soviet Navy during the late 1930s. Although she began construction as a Project 7 Gnevny-class destroyer, Skory was completed in 1941 to the modified Project 7U design.
An unidentified Storozhevoy-class destroyer in the Black Sea | |
History | |
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Soviet Union | |
Name | Skory (Скорый (Fast)) |
Ordered | 2nd Five-Year Plan |
Builder | Shipyard No. 190 (Zhdanov), Leningrad |
Yard number | 524 |
Laid down | 23 October 1938 |
Launched | 24 July 1939 |
Completed | 18 July 1941 |
Fate | Sunk by mine, 28 August 1941 |
General characteristics (Storozhevoy, 1941) | |
Class and type | Storozhevoy-class destroyer |
Displacement | |
Length | 112.5 m (369 ft 1 in) (o/a) |
Beam | 10.2 m (33 ft 6 in) |
Draft | 3.98 m (13 ft 1 in) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion | 2 shafts, 2 steam turbine sets |
Speed | 40.3 knots (74.6 km/h; 46.4 mph) (trials) |
Endurance | 2,700 nmi (5,000 km; 3,100 mi) at 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
Complement | 207 (271 wartime) |
Sensors and processing systems | Mars hydrophones |
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With her sea trials cut short by the beginning of Operation Barbarossa in June, Skory was assigned to the Baltic Fleet and fought in the defense of Tallinn, Estonia, providing naval gunfire support to Soviet troops. During the evacuation of Tallinn on 28 August, she struck a mine while attempting to tow the damaged destroyer leader Minsk and was nearly broken in half, sinking within minutes with the loss of 57 crewmen and an unknown number of passengers.