Soviet destroyer Strogy (1939)
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Strogy (Russian: Строгий, lit. 'Strict') 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, Strogy was rebuilt to the modified Project 7U design.
An unidentified Storozhevoy-class destroyer in the Black Sea | |
History | |
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Soviet Union | |
Name | Strogy (Строгий (Strict)) |
Ordered | 2nd Five-Year Plan |
Builder | Shipyard No. 190 (Zhdanov), Leningrad |
Yard number | 523 |
Laid down | 26 October 1938 |
Launched | 31 December 1939 |
Completed | 22 September 1942 |
Commissioned | 30 August 1941 |
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Reclassified |
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Stricken | 26 June 1964 |
Fate | Scrapped, 1964–1965 |
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) |
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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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Still under construction when Operation Barbarossa began in June 1941, the destroyer was placed in service as a floating artillery battery in September. Strogy spent the Siege of Leningrad providing naval gunfire support and was completed in September 1942. After the war, she officially joined the Baltic Fleet and began a refit in 1953. The latter became a conversion into a rescue ship ultimately designated SS-18 and she was transferred to the Northern Fleet after the completion of the conversion in 1958. Reduced to a missile target ship in 1963, she was struck from the Navy List a year later, then scrapped.