Soviet destroyer Smyshlyony (1940)

Smyshlyony underway
History
Soviet Union
Name	Smyshlyony (Смышлёный (Clever))
Ordered	2nd Five-Year Plan
Builder	Shipyard No. 200 (named after 61 Communards), Nikolayev
Yard number	1077
Laid down	27 June 1938
Launched	26 August 1939
Commissioned	11 November 1940
Fate	Sunk by mine, 7 March 1942
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

Smyshlyony (Russian: Смышлёный, lit. 'Clever') was one of 18 Storozhevoy-class destroyer (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, Smyshlyony was completed in 1940 to the modified Project 7U design.

Assigned to the Black Sea Fleet, she covered the evacuation of the Danube Flotilla to Odessa a few weeks after the German invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June. During the Sieges of Odessa and Sevastopol in 1941–1942, the ship ferried reinforcements and supplies into those cities, evacuated wounded and refugees and bombarded Axis troop positions. Smyshlyony struck a Soviet mine on 6 March 1942 and sank the following day as the flooding could not be contained. All but two of her crew perished when she sank.