German destroyer Z33

Sister ship Z39 underway after the war
History
Nazi Germany
Name	Z33
Ordered	19 September 1939
Builder	AG Weser (Deschimag), Bremen
Yard number	W1003
Laid down	22 December 1940
Launched	15 September 1941
Commissioned	6 February 1943
Decommissioned	Late April 1945
Out of service	early April 1945
Captured	9 May 1945
Fate	Transferred to the Soviet Union, 2 January 1946
Soviet Union
Name	Provornyy (Проворный)
Namesake	Russian word for "nimble"
Acquired	2 January 1946
Commissioned	1946
Decommissioned	22 April 1955
Reclassified	As a training ship, 30 November 1954 As an Accommodation ship, 22 April 1955
Fate	Scrapped, 1962
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Type 1936A (Mob) destroyer
Displacement	2,657 long tons (2,700 t) (standard) 3,691 long tons (3,750 t) (deep load)
Length	127 m (416 ft 8 in) (o/a)
Beam	12 m (39 ft 4 in)
Draft	4.62 m (15 ft 2 in)
Installed power	70,000 PS (51,000 kW; 69,000 shp) 6 × water-tube boilers
Propulsion	2 × shafts 2 × geared steam turbine sets
Speed	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range	2,950 nmi (5,460 km; 3,390 mi) at 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph)
Complement	316–336
Armament	1 × twin, 3 × single 15 cm (5.9 in) guns 2 × twin 3.7 cm (1.5 in) AA guns 2 × quadruple and 2 × single 2 cm (0.8 in) AA guns 2 × quadruple 53.3 cm (21 in) torpedo tubes 60 mines 4 × depth charge launchers

Z33 was a Type 1936A (Mob) destroyer built for the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) during World War II. Completed in 1943, the ship was damaged during the raid on the island of Spitsbergen in September and spent all of 1944 in Norwegian waters. She was damaged by British aircraft attacking the battleship Tirpitz in July. Z33 escorted troop convoys from northern Norway when the Germans began evacuating the area beginning in October. She ran aground in early 1945 as she was sailing for the Baltic and was badly damaged. While the ship was being towed to port for repairs, she and her escorts were attacked by Allied fighter-bombers. Z33 finally reached the Baltic in early April, but was reduced to reserve for lack of fuel. The ship was transferred to Cuxhaven and decommissioned shortly before the end of the war.

Z33 was allocated to the Soviet Union in late 1945 and turned over at the beginning of 1946. Renamed Provornyy, the ship subsequently served with the Soviet Navy. She became a training ship in 1954 before she was converted to an accommodation ship the following year. Provornyy was badly damaged by a fire in 1960 and was scrapped in 1962.