Soviet destroyer Gnevny (1958)

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Gnevny in 1971
History
Naval Ensign of the Soviet Union (1950-1991).svgSoviet Union
Name
  • Gnevny
  • (Гневный)
Namesake Wrathful in Russian
Builder North Nikolayev Shipyard
Laid down17 December 1957
Launched30 November 1958
Commissioned10 January 1960
Decommissioned8 April 1988
Homeport Vladivostok
Fate Scrapped
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

Gnevny was the fifth 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 30 November 1958 and commissioned into the Black Sea Fleet on 10 January 1960. [2]

In 1961, the ship made an ultra-long-distance transition from the Black Sea around Europe, and then - via the Northern Sea Route to the base of the Pacific Fleet. [3]

On May 19, 1966, the ship like all ships of Project 57-bis, was reclassified into the Large Missile Ship (BRK). [4]

She twice visited Massawa in Ethiopia (January 1967 and 1969) and Casablanca in Morocco (October 1968 and April 1978), as well as once Aden in South Yemen (January 1969), Nairobi in Mauritius (April 1969), Bombay in India (November 1975), Vancouver in Canada (August 1976). [3]

While in the war zone, she performed combat missions to provide assistance to the armed forces of Egypt (June 1967 and from April to December 1968), Syria (June 1967). [3]

On March 13, 1969, she was transferred to the Pacific Fleet (Pacific Fleet). In the period from 1972 to 1973, it was modernized according to the project 57-A in Vladivostok at the Dalzavod shipyard. On March 7, 1974, the ship was reclassified as a Large anti-submarine ship (BOD). [3]

On April 8, 1988, the ship was decommissioned, disarmed and expelled from the Navy, in connection with the transfer to the OFI for dismantling and sale, and on July 17 of the same year her crew was disbanded. [4]

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 3 4 "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. 1 2 S.S., Berezhnoy (2002). Крейсера и миноносцы: Справочник. М.: Военное издательство. p. 472. ISBN   5-203-01780-8.

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