An unidentified Storozhevoy-class destroyer in the Black Sea
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History | |
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Soviet Union | |
Name | Sposobny (Способный (Capable)) |
Ordered | 2nd Five-Year Plan |
Builder | Shipyard No. 200 (named after 61 Communards), Nikolayev |
Yard number | 1076 |
Laid down | 7 March 1939 |
Launched | 30 September 1939 |
Commissioned | 24 June 1941 |
Fate | Sunk by aircraft, 6 October 1943 |
General characteristics | |
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 | 36.8 knots (68.2 km/h; 42.3 mph) |
Endurance | 1,380 nmi (2,560 km; 1,590 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Complement | 207 (271 wartime) |
Sensors and processing systems | Mars hydrophones |
Armament |
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Sposobny (Russian: Способный, lit. 'Capable') was one of 18 Storozhevoy-class destroyers (officially known as Project 7U destroyers) built for the Soviet Navy during the late 1930s. Although she began construction as a Project 7 Gnevny-class destroyer, Sposobny was completed in 1941 to the modified Project 7U design and assigned to the Black Sea Fleet.
During the Sieges of Odessa and Sevastopol in 1941–1942, the ship escorted convoys to and from those cities and provided naval gunfire support to the defenders. Sposobny struck a mine in early 1942 and had to be towed back to port for repairs. She was further damaged by bombs while still under repair in April 1942 and these were not completed until mid-1943. After a failed attempt to intercept German convoys off the Crimea, the ship and two other destroyers were attacked by German aircraft. After repeated attacks, the other two were sunk first and Sposobny was sunk while trying to rescue their survivors.
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