Soviet destroyer Stoyky (1938)

An unidentified Storozhevoy-class destroyer in the Black Sea
History
Soviet Union
Name	Stoyky (Стойкий (Steadfast))
Ordered	2nd Five-Year Plan
Builder	Shipyard No. 190 (Zhdanov), Leningrad
Yard number	518
Laid down	31 March 1938
Launched	26 December 1938
Commissioned	18 October 1940
Renamed	Vitze-Admiral Drozd (Вице-адмирал Дрозд), 13 February 1943 TsL-54, 6 February 1960
Namesake	Valentin Drozd
Reclassified	As a target ship, 6 February 1960
Stricken	28 September 1961
Honors and awards	Guards designation, 3 April 1942
Fate	Sank during a storm, 2 July 1961
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

Stoyky (Russian: Стойкий, lit. 'Steadfast') 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, Stoyky was completed in 1940 to the modified Project 7U design.

Serving with the Baltic Fleet, she participated in minelaying and escort operations in the Gulf of Riga campaign after the start of the German invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) in June 1941. Taken out of action by propeller damage in the first half of July, the destroyer returned to service in late August, conducting shore bombardments and minelaying during the Siege of Leningrad. In November and December she participated in the evacuation of Hanko, after which she remained in Leningrad. Stoyky saw little action for the rest of the war, receiving the title of Guards in 1942 and being renamed Vitse-Admiral Drozd (Вице-адмирал Дрозд) in 1943. Postwar, she continued to serve in the Baltic and was briefly converted to a target ship before being sunk during a 1961 storm.