Nowik class

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Nowik-class destroyer Frunze

The Novik-class was a large class of destroyers entered into service by the Imperial Russian Navy before World War I and taken over by the new Bolshevik government after the 1917 October Revolution .

history

The Nowik-class destroyers were introduced from 1913. They were relatively heavily armed and could drive a lot. A total of 28 ships of the class were built. Only one boat, the Grom , was lost during World War I while Russia was still involved in the war. In the course of the revolution and the civil war that followed, some destroyers were sunk by White Guard troops. For example the Bijstri shown here ; it was later raised and renamed Frunze . On September 21, 1941, the Frunze was sunk by bombs.

Other destroyers made detours as far as Peru , where they remained in service until the late 1950s. Further ships, especially the Black Sea Fleet, were to be handed over to the Imperial German Navy in 1918 ; however, their crews preferred to sink their ships themselves.

Technical specifications

In total there were five construction lots , with the first construction lot consisting only of the Nowik type ship . The basic structure of the five construction lots was the same, but varied in some points. The basis is the technical data of the first construction lot, the Nowik . Only the changes per construction lot are listed in detail.

1. Construction lot: Nowik (single ship)

  • Shipyard: Putilow Shipyard, St. Petersburg
  • Length: 102.43 m (over all)
  • Width: 9.30 m
  • Draft: 2.80 m
  • Standard displacement: 1,271 ts (1,291 t)
  • Displacement: 1,801 ts (1,829 t)
  • Crew: 168 men
  • Drive: 6 Vulkan boilers, three sets of AEG turbines, three shafts
  • Power: 40,000 hp
  • Speed: 34 kn
  • Range: 2,800 nautical miles

Armament

  • 4 × 102 mm guns
  • 4 × 12.7 mm MG
  • 4 × 2-way torpedo tubes 450 mm
  • 50 mines

2. Construction lot

Leader Ilyin 3 boats completed during the war, 2 later
Orfej 8 boats and
Gavriil 6 boats.

Changes:

  • Length: 98 m
  • Drive: 3-drum volcano boiler
  • Power: 30,000 hp

Armament

  • 4 × 102 mm guns
  • 2 × 12.7 mm SMG
  • 3 × 3-way torpedo tubes 450 mm
  • 80 mines

3. Lot: Isjaslav and 2 other ships

Changes:

  • Length: 107 m
  • Power: 32,700 hp

Armament like 2nd construction lot

4. Construction lot: Bespokoiny and 8 other ships

Changes:

  • Length: 98 m
  • Power: 25,500 hp

Armament

  • 3 × 102 mm gun
  • 2 × 47 mm gun
  • 4 × 12.7 mm SMG
  • 5 × 2-way torpedo tubes 450 mm
  • 80 mines

5. Construction lot: Gadschibej and 7 other ships

Changes:

  • Length: 93 m
  • Output: 29,000 hp

Armament

  • 4 × 102 mm gun
  • 1 × 40 mm gun
  • 4 × 3-way torpedo tubes 450 mm
  • 80 mines

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to MJ Whitley: Destroyer in the Second World War , Motorbuch Verlag, 2nd edition, 1997, ISBN 3-613-01426-2 , p. 241 Width: 9.53 m
  2. ↑ According to MJWhitley: destroyer during World War II , Motorbuchverlag, 2nd edition, 1997, ISBN 3-613-01426-2 , p 241 medium Draft: 3.53 m

literature

  • Hans Mehl: Torpedo Boats and Destroyers. transpress publishing house for transport, Berlin 1983
  • Robert Jackson: Destroyers, Frigates and Corvettes. Gondromverlag, Bindlach 2001, ISBN 3-8112-1873-5

Web links

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