Soviet destroyer Strogy (1939)

An unidentified Storozhevoy-class destroyer in the Black Sea
History
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
Renamed	SDK-13, 20 March 1956 SS-18, 27 December 1956 SM-16, 14 September 1963
Reclassified	As rescue and decontamination ship, 17 February 1956 As rescue ship, 27 December 1956 As target ship, 14 September 1963
Stricken	26 June 1964
Fate	Scrapped, 1964–1965
General characteristics (Storozhevoy, 1941)
Class and type	Storozhevoy-class destroyer
Displacement	1,727 t (1,700 long tons) (standard) 2,279 t (2,243 long tons) (full load)
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	4 water-tube boilers 54,000 shp (40,000 kW) (trials)
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
Armament	4 × single 130 mm (5.1 in) guns 2 × single 76.2 mm (3 in) AA guns 3 × single 45 mm (1.8 in) AA guns 4 × single 12.7 mm (0.50 in) DK or DShK machine guns 2 × triple 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes 58–96 mines 30 depth charges

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.

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.