Leytenant Ilin-class destroyer

Lenin (ex-Kapitan Izylmetev)
Class overview
Operators	Russian Navy   Soviet Navy   Estonian Navy   Peruvian Navy
Preceded by	Novik
Succeeded by	Izyaslav class
In commission	1914–1956
Planned	8
Completed	5
Cancelled	3
Lost	1
Scrapped	4
General characteristics (as built)
Type	Destroyer
Displacement	1,260  t (1,240 long tons)
Length	98 m (321 ft 6 in)
Beam	9.34 m (30 ft 8 in)
Draught	2.93 m (9 ft 7 in)
Installed power	4 Normand boilers 32,000  PS (24,000  kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts, 2 steam turbines
Speed	31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph)
Range	1,680  nmi (3,110 km; 1,930 mi) at 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Complement	150
Armament	4 × single 102 mm (4 in) guns 4 × triple 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes 80 × naval mines

The Leytenant Illin-class destroyers were built for the Baltic Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy.

Ships

Built at the Putilov yard, St Petersburg

Ship	Launched	Fate
Kapitan Belli renamed Karl Libknekht	29 Oct 1915	Transferred to the Soviet Northern Fleet. Broken up 1950s
Kapitan Izylmetev renamed Lenin	4 Nov 1914	Scuttled 24 June 1941 at Liepāja, Latvia while under repair
Kapitan Kern renamed Rykov renamed Valerian Kuybyshev	27 Aug 1915	Transferred to the Soviet Northern Fleet. Broken up 1950s
Kapitan Konon-Zotov	23 Oct 1915	Broken up incomplete 1923
Kapitan Kroun	5 Aug 1916	Broken up incomplete 1923
Kapitan I ranga Miklucha Maklai renamed Spartak (1917) renamed Wambola renamed Almirante Villar	27 Aug 1915	Captured by the British in 1918, given to the Estonian Navy and sold by the Estonians to Peru in 1933. Scrapped in 1954 [1]
Lieutenant Dubasov	9 Sep 1916	Broken up incomplete 1923
Lieutenant Ilin renamed Garibaldi renamed Trotsky renamed Voykov	28 Nov 1914	transferred to the Soviet Pacific Fleet. Broken up 1950s

Citations

1. "Tales of Sub-Lieutenant Ilyin: A prisoner of the British".

Bibliography

• Apalkov, Yu. V. (1996). Боевые корабли русского флота: 8.1914-10.1917г[Combat Ships of the Russian Fleet: 8.1914-10.1917] (in Russian). ИНТЕК. ISBN   5-7559-0018-3.
• Berezhnoy, S. S. (2002). Крейсера и Миносцы: Справочик[Cruisers and Destroyers: Reference] (in Russian). Moscow: Ввоенное Ииздательство. ISBN   5-203-01780-8.
• Budzbon, Przemysław (1985). "Russia". In Gray, Randal (ed.). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. Naval Institute Press. pp. 291–325. ISBN   0-85177-245-5.
• Budzbon, Przemysław; Radziemski, Jan & Twardowski, Marek (2022). Warships of the Soviet Fleets 1939–1945. Vol. I: Major Combatants. Naval Institute Press. ISBN   978-1-68247-877-6.
• Greger, René (1972). The Russian Fleet, 1914-1917. Ian Allan. ISBN   0-7110-0255-X.
• O'Hara, Vincent (2017). Clash of Fleets: Naval Battles of the Great War, 1914-18. Naval Institute Press. ISBN   978-1-68247-008-4.
• Platonov, Andrey V. (2002). Энциклопедия советских надводных кораблей 1941–1945[Encyclopedia of Soviet Surface Ships 1941–1945] (in Russian). Poligon. ISBN   5-89173-178-9.
• Rohwer, Jürgen (2005). Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945: The Naval History of World War Two (Third Revised ed.). Naval Institute Press. ISBN   1-59114-119-2.
• Staff, Gary (2009). Battle for the Baltic Islands 1917: Triumph of the Imperial German Navy. Pen and Sword Maritime. ISBN   978-1-84415-787-7.
• Verstyuk, Anatoly & Gordeyev, Stanislav (2006). Корабли Минных дивизий. От "Новика" до "Гогланда"[Torpedo Division Ships: From Novik to Gogland] (in Russian). Voennaya Kniga. ISBN   5-902863-10-4.

Further reading

• Chernyshev, Alexander (2011). Русские суперэсминцы. Легендарные "Новики"[Russian Superdestroyers: Legendary Noviks] (in Russian) (2nd ed.). Yauza/Eksmo. ISBN   978-5-699-53144-8.
• Likachev, Pavel Vladimirovich (2005). Эскадренные миноносцы типа "Новик" в ВМФ СССР 1920–1955 гг[Novik-class Destroyers in the Soviet Navy 1920–1955] (in Russian). ISTFLOT. ISBN   978-5-98830-009-0.