Soviet destroyer Serdity (1940)

An unidentified Storozhevoy-class destroyer in the Black Sea
History
Soviet Union
Name	Serdity (Сердитый (Enraged))
Ordered	2nd Five-Year Plan
Builder	Shipyard No. 189 (Sergo Ordzhonikidze), Leningrad
Yard number	298
Laid down	15 October 1938
Launched	21 April 1939
Completed	15 October 1940
Commissioned	12 April 1941
Fate	Sunk by aircraft, 19 July 1941
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	38 knots (70 km/h; 44 mph)
Endurance	1,800 nmi (3,300 km; 2,100 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

Serdity (Russian: Сердитый, lit. 'Enraged') 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, Serdity was completed in 1940 to the modified Project 7U design.

Serving with the Baltic Fleet, she participated in minelaying operations after the start of the German invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) in June 1941. Serdity engaged German minesweepers in the Irbe Strait on 6 July without result, and on 18 July was damaged by a friendly air attack. While anchored off Hiiumaa the following day, she was sunk by German bombers. Her survivors were taken off by other destroyers and what remained of the ship was broken up for scrap postwar.