Okhotnik-class destroyer

Okhotnik
Class overview
Operators	Imperial Russian Navy Red Fleet
Preceded by	Gaidamak class
Succeeded by	Novik
Built	1905–1907
Completed	4
Lost	1
Scrapped	3
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Okhotnik-class destroyer
Displacement	740  t (730 long tons)
Length	75.18 m (246 ft 8 in)
Beam	8.2 m (26 ft 11 in)
Draft	3.35 m (11 ft) (deep load)
Installed power	4 Normand boilers 7,300  ihp (5,444  kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed	25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph)
Range	2,200–2,400  nmi (4,100–4,400 km; 2,500–2,800 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	95
Armament	2 × single 75 mm (3 in) gun 6 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) guns 3 × single 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes 40–42 mines

The Okhotnik class consisted of four destroyers built for the Imperial Russian Navy during the first decade of the 20th century. The ships served in the Baltic Fleet and participated in the First World War.

Ships

Construction data

Name	Laid down	Launched	Completed	Fate
Okhotnik	13 October 1905	1 August 1906	27 September 1906	Sunk by mine, 13 September 1917, raised and scrapped
General Kondratenko	18 August 1905	25 May 1906	27 September 1907	scrapped, 1925
Pogranichnik	13 October 1905	6 July 1906	27 September 1907	scrapped, 1925
Sibirsky Strelok	March 1905	6 October 1905	3 July 1906	Renamed Konstruktor, 1926, and converted into experimental ship. Scrapped, 1957

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