"Smashing" - the Soviet destroyer of the project 7 .
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| Service | |
 the USSR | |
| Ship class and type | Project 7 squadron |
| Organization | USSR Navy |
| Construction started | 10/29/1936 |
| Launched | 08.23.1937 |
| Commissioned | 08/13/1939 |
| Status | wreck. |
| Main characteristics | |
| Displacement | 1612 tons (standard), 2215 tons (full). |
| Length | 112.5 m |
| Width | 10.2 m |
| Draft | 3.1 m |
| Engines | 2 vocational schools GTZA-24, 4 boilers |
| Power | 48,000 liters with. |
| Travel speed | 38 knots (maximum). |
| Navigation range | 2,200 miles (at 20 knots). |
| Crew | 246 people |
| Armament | |
| Artillery | 4x1x130 / 50-mm AU B-13 . |
| Flak | 2x76-mm 34-K, 2x45-mm 21-K, 2x12.7-mm machine gun (DShK or DK). |
| Mine-torpedo armament | 2x3x533mm. TA 39-U 60 min KB-3, or 65 min. Arr. 1926, or 95 min. Arr. 1912 |
| Aviation Group | not. |
Content
Construction History
Laid on October 29, 1936 at the Baltic Shipyard in Leningrad, launched on August 23, 1937, put into operation on August 13, 1939, originally included in the Red Banner Baltic Fleet. On September 17, 1939, he left Leningrad to Polyarny along the White Sea-Baltic Canal. November 8, 1939 included in the Federation Council. [one]
Service
Participated in the Soviet-Finnish war . He carried a patrol service, several times escorted transports.
The beginning of World War II met in the repair at the plant number 402. After the end of the repair was included in the White Sea Flotilla.
By the end of 1941, he produced three mine settings, shelled enemy positions 11 times. Several times went on the search for enemy ships, but operations ended unsuccessfully.
March 29, 1942 "Smashing" and " Thundering " entered into the escort of the convoy PQ-13 . At 11 hours and 18 minutes in the conditions of poor visibility shots of ship guns were fixed, then the columns around the destroyers rose from falling projectiles. Suddenly, at a distance of 15 cables, the destroyer Z-26 appeared. [2] "Smashing" and " Thundering " opened fire on the enemy. "Smashing" second salvo hit the enemy destroyer in the area of the boiler department. However, poor visibility prevented the destruction of the enemy, the Z-26 disappeared into a snow charge. After some time, this destroyer, along with the Z-24 and Z-25, attacked British ships, but also received several hits from the cruiser " Trinidad ". "Smashing" and " Thundering " were also involved in the fight with him. [3] As a result, the German destroyer Z-26 was sunk by the cruiser Trinidad . After the battle, the British ships left to assist the damaged Trinidad cruiser. The remaining in the escort "Smashing" and " Thundering " brought the convoy without a loss.
Until November 1942, "Smashing" participated in escort escorts, participated in the search for the surviving ships of the PQ-17 convoy, escorted the PQ-18 convoy fired on coastal targets, then underwent scheduled repairs.
On November 17 of the same year, “Smashing” and the leader of “ Baku ” escorted the convoy QP-15 .
November 20, 1942 in an 11-point storm, the ships began to return to the base one by one. At 2.30 pm, the waves were blown off and after 10 minutes sank together with 6 sailors of the Sodon feed. The destroyers Kuybyshev, Uritsky and Reasonable came to the aid of the Shattering One. During the rescue work, 191 people were shot. 30 people died during rescue operations. November 21 at 15.30 ships rescue operations, went to the base for refueling. On the "Smashing" there were 13 sailors left, the commander of the BCh-3, senior lieutenant G. Ye. Lekarev, and senior politruk I. A. Vladimirov. Subsequent attempts to locate the emergency ship were unsuccessful, apparently, it sank shortly after the destroyers left. Most of the officers headed by the commander left the ship before the entire crew was evacuated, for which the commander of the ship was subsequently shot, and the senior assistant was sent to the penal battalion, but later returned to the fleet and rose to the rank of rear admiral. [four]
Notes
- ↑ A. N. Sokolov. Expendable material of the Soviet fleet. Destroyers of the USSR and Russia. Military Book 2007.
- Encyclopedia of Soviet surface ships of 1941-1945. Platonov A.V. Polygon. 2002
- ↑ Polar convoys: Per. from English A. G. Patients-M. LLC AST Publishing. p. 67.
- Encyclopedia of Soviet surface ships of 1941-1945. Platonov A.V. Polygon. 2002. p. 187.
Links
- Shigin Vladimir Vilenovich. The truth about the "Smashing" "Sea collection" № 6-10 for 2008