Soviet destroyer Boyky (1959)

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Boyky shadowed by US Navy P-3A Orion while en-route to Boston on 10 May 1975
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Naval Ensign of the Soviet Union (1950-1991).svgSoviet Union
Name
  • Boyky
  • (Бойкий)
Namesake Jaunty in Russian
Builder North Nikolayev Shipyard
Laid down2 April 1959
Launched15 December 1959
Commissioned26 June 1961
Decommissioned9 February 1988
Homeport Sevastopol
Fate Scrapped, 1988
General characteristics
Class and type Kanin-class destroyer
Displacement
  • as built:
    • 3,500 long tons (3,556 t) standard
    • 4,192 long tons (4,259 t) full load
  • as modernised:
    • 3,700 long tons (3,759 t) standard
    • 4,500 long tons (4,572 t) full load
Length126.1 m (414 ft)
Beam12.7 m (42 ft)
Draught4.2 m (14 ft)
Installed power72,000 hp (54,000 kW)
Propulsion
Speedas built 34.5 knots (63.9 km/h; 39.7 mph)
Complement320
Sensors and
processing systems
Armament
  • as built:
  • as modernised:
    • 1 × twin SA-N-1 SAM launcher (32 Missiles)
    • 2 × quad 57 mm (2.2 in) guns
    • 2 × twin 30 mm (1.2 in) AK-230 guns
    • 10 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes
    • 3 × RBU-6000 anti submarine rocket launchers
Aviation facilities Helipad

Boyky was the seventh ship of the Kanin-class destroyer of the Soviet Navy. [1]

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Construction and career

The ship was built at North Nikolayev Shipyard in Mykolaiv and was launched on 14 October 1959 and commissioned into the Black Sea Fleet on 3 December 1959. [2]

On October 14, 1961, the ship entered the Black Sea Fleet of the Soviet Navy. May 19, 1966 she was reclassified into a large missile ship (BRK). In the period from 6 to 11 August 1966, she paid a visit to Alexandria (Egypt). From 15 to 20 February 1969 was in Conakry (Guinea), and from 5 to 10 October - in Lagos (Nigeria). [3]

Former Boyky foundered in Skogsoya Island, c. 1988 Boykiy(DN-SN-90-03991).jpg
Former Boyky foundered in Skogsøya Island, c. 1988

On June 8, 1970, the destroyer was transferred to the Red Banner Northern Fleet. In the period from October 23, 1970, to April 6, 1973, she was modernized and rebuilt according to the Project 57-A at the Shipyard named after 61 Communards in Nikolaev. November 2, 1972 transferred from the subclass of large missile ships to the subclass of large anti-submarine ships. [3]

In May 1975, she visited Boston along with sister ship Zhguchy to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, marking the first visit to the United States by Soviet warships since the end of that conflict. [4]

On February 9, 1988, the destroyer was excluded from the Soviet Navy in connection with the delivery to the OFI for disarmament, dismantling and sale. On July 17, 1988, the Boyky's crew was disbanded. In the fall of 1988, the ship was sold to a Spanish company for cutting into metal, but on the way from the Kola Bay to El Ferrol on November 14, 1988, in a strong storm, she was thrown onto the coastal rocks off Skogsøya Island in the Norwegian Sea. [5]

Citations

  1. ↑ "Destroyers - Project 57bis". russianships.info. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
  2. ↑ R., Kazachkov (17 July 2009). "Catalog of slipway (serial) numbers of ships and vessels of the Navy of the USSR and Russia". Naval collection. Archived from the original on 21 August 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
  3. 1 2 "Сайт "АТРИНА" • Эскадренные миноносцы пр.57-бис типа "Гневный", Krupn…". archive.is. 2012-12-21. Archived from the original on 2012-12-21. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
  4. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/1975/05/18/archives/soviet-warships-end-boston-visit-sailors-get-warm-farewell-after.html
  5. ↑ S.S., Berezhnoy (2002). Крейсера и миноносцы: Справочник. М.: Военное издательство. p. 472. ISBN   5-203-01780-8.

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