Soviet destroyer Sposobny (1940)

An unidentified Storozhevoy-class destroyer in the Black Sea
History
Soviet Union
Name	Sposobny (Способный (Capable))
Ordered	2nd Five-Year Plan
Builder	Shipyard No. 200 (named after 61 Communards), Nikolayev
Yard number	1076
Laid down	7 March 1939
Launched	30 September 1939
Commissioned	24 June 1941
Fate	Sunk by aircraft, 6 October 1943
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 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 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 (0.5 in) DK or DShK machine guns 2 × triple 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes 58–96 mines 30 depth charges

Sposobny (Russian: Способный, lit. 'Capable') was one of 18 Storozhevoy-class destroyers (officially known as Project 7U destroyers) built for the Soviet Navy during the late 1930s. Although she began construction as a Project 7 Gnevny-class destroyer, Sposobny was completed in 1941 to the modified Project 7U design and assigned to the Black Sea Fleet.

During the Sieges of Odessa and Sevastopol in 1941–1942, the ship escorted convoys to and from those cities and provided naval gunfire support to the defenders. Sposobny struck a mine in early 1942 and had to be towed back to port for repairs. She was further damaged by bombs while still under repair in April 1942 and these were not completed until mid-1943. After a failed attempt to intercept German convoys off the Crimea, the ship and two other destroyers were attacked by German aircraft. After repeated attacks, the other two were sunk first and Sposobny was sunk while trying to rescue their survivors.