 Groza shortly after completion in 1932
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| History | |
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 Soviet Union | |
| Name | Groza |
| Namesake | Гроза, Russian for "thunder" |
| Ordered | 1st Five-Year Plan |
| Builder | Shipyard 190 (Zhdanov), Leningrad |
| Laid down | 13 August 1927 |
| Launched | 28 September 1930 |
| Commissioned | 22 July 1932 |
| Out of service | 12 November 1952 |
| Renamed | As PKZ-51, 25 February 1953 |
| Reclassified |
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| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type | Uragan-class guard ship |
| Displacement | 490 t (480 long tons) (standard) |
| Length | 71.5 m (234 ft 7 in) |
| Beam | 7.4 m (24 ft 3 in) |
| Draught | 2.95 m (9 ft 8 in) |
| Installed power |
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| Propulsion | 2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines |
| Speed | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
| Range | 850 nmi (1,570 km; 980 mi) at 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
| Complement | 114 men (1943) |
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The Soviet guard ship Groza was a Uragan-class guard ship built for the Soviet Navy during the 1920s and 1930s. The ship was one of the Series I ships known officially as Project 2. Initially assigned to the Baltic Fleet, she was transferred to the Northern Flotilla shortly after she was commissioned in 1932 and played a minor role in the 1939–1940 Winter War against Finland.
During World War II, Groza initially provided naval gunfire support during Operation Barbarossa for Soviet troops defending the Rybachy Peninsula and then escorted Allied merchant ships in Soviet waters in 1942–1943. The ship briefly served as a target ship in 1952–1953 before being hulked as an accommodation ship in early 1953.
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