 An unidentified Storozhevoy-class destroyer in the Black Sea
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| History | |
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 Soviet Union | |
| Name | Svirepy (Свирепый (Fierce)) |
| Ordered | 2nd Five-Year Plan |
| Builder | Shipyard No. 190 (Zhdanov), Leningrad |
| Yard number | 525 |
| Laid down | 29 November 1936 |
| Launched | 28 August 1939 |
| Commissioned | 22 June 1941 |
| Out of service | 28 January 1958 |
| Stricken | 3 April 1958 |
| Fate | Scrapped after 3 April 1958 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Storozhevoy-class destroyer |
| Displacement | |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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Svirepy (Russian: Свирепый, lit. 'Fierce') 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, Svirepy was completed in 1941 to the modified Project 7U design.
With her sea trials cut short by the beginning of Operation Barbarossa in June, Svirepy was assigned to the Baltic Fleet and fought in the Gulf of Riga and the defense of Tallinn, Estonia, providing naval gunfire support to Soviet troops. Escaping relatively unscathed from the evacuation of the latter, she provided fire support during the Siege of Leningrad, though seeing little activity after repairs in early 1942. Postwar, the destroyer continued to serve with the Baltic Fleet, spending much of the late 1940s and early 1950s under refit before being scrapped in the late 1950s.
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