Derzky-class destroyer

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 × 100 mm (4 in) guns 2 × 47 mm AA guns 4 × machine guns 10 × 457 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes, (5 × 2) 80 mines
Service record
Part of:	Black Sea Fleet

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.

Ships

• 
  Pospeshnyy
• 
  Pylkiy

Bibliography

• Chesneau, Roger, ed. (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7. 
• Friedman, Norman (2011). Naval Weapons of World War One. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK: Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84832-100-7. 
• Gardiner, Robert & Gray, Randal, eds. (1984). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1906–1921. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5. 
• Whitley, M. J. (1988). Destroyers of World War Two. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-326-1. 

External links

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