Soviet destroyer Soobrazitelny (1940)

Soviet stamp depicting Soobrazitelny
History
Soviet Union
Name	Soobrazitelny (Сообразительный (Astute))
Builder	Shipyard No. 200 (named after 61 Communards), Nikolayev
Yard number	1078
Laid down	3 March 1939
Launched	26 August 1939
Commissioned	7 June 1941
Renamed	SDK-11, 20 March 1956 SS-16, 12 February 1957 TsL-3, 31 December 1963
Reclassified	As rescue and decontamination ship, 17 February 1956 As rescue ship, 12 February 1957 As target ship, 14 September 1963
Stricken	19 March 1966
Honors and awards	Guards designation, 2 March 1943
Fate	Scrapped, 1966–1968
General characteristics
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	36.8 knots (68.2 km/h; 42.3 mph)
Endurance	1,380 nmi (2,560 km; 1,590 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

Soobrazitelny (Russian: Сообразительный, lit. 'Astute') 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, Soobrazitelny was completed in 1941 to the modified Project 7U design.

Assigned to the Black Sea Fleet, Soobrazitelny entered service a few weeks before Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began in June 1941. She participated in the Raid on Constanța and provided fire support to the defenders during the Siege of Odessa, in addition to service on escort duty through the remainder of the year. During the Battle of the Kerch Peninsula in early 1942, Soobrazitelny escorted transports and provided fire support for the landings, then herself was used as to transport troops in the last phase of the Siege of Sevastopol. After being repaired in mid-1942, she continued to conduct shore bombardments and participated in several raids on the Romanian coast at the end of the year. Soobrazitelny received the title of Guards in early 1943 and was repaired mid-year, seeing no action for the rest of the war. Postwar, she spent several years under refit and was converted into a rescue ship designated SS-16 in the late 1950s. Reduced to a target ship, she was scrapped in the mid-1960s despite an attempt to have her preserved as a museum ship, the last survivor of her class.