Soviet destroyer Surovy (1940)
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Surovy (Russian: Суровый, lit. 'Severe') 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, Surovy 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 | Surovy (Суровый (Severe)) |
Ordered | 2nd Five-Year Plan |
Builder | Shipyard No. 189 (Sergo Ordzhonikidze), Leningrad |
Yard number | 297 |
Laid down | 1 February 1939 |
Launched | 5 August 1939 |
Commissioned | 31 May 1941 |
Fate | Scuttled, 13 November 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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Entering service just before the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, she participated in minelaying operations and provided naval gunfire support from late June to early August. Engaging a German convoy without result on 21 August, she was damaged by a mine during the evacuation of Tallinn, Estonia, but limped back to Leningrad for repairs that lasted for most of September. After a month of shore bombardments during the Siege of Leningrad, the destroyer participated in the evacuation of Hanko Naval Base in early November, and was scuttled after being crippled by a mine during the latter on 13 November.