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Konstantin

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Гавриил [Gavriil]			Russo-Baltic Wks, Revel	11.1913	5.1.1915	12.1916	sunk 21.10.1919
Константин [Konstantin]			Russo-Baltic Wks, Revel	12.1913	12.6.1915	5.1917	sunk 21.10.1919
Свобода [Svoboda] (ex-Владимир [Vladimir])			Russo-Baltic Wks, Revel	12.1913	18.8.1915	10.1917	sunk 21.10.1919
Михаил [Mikhail]			Russo-Baltic Wks, Revel	11.1913	31.5.1916	---	suspended late 1917
Сокол [Sokol]			Russo-Baltic Wks, Revel	1.1915	Summer 1917	---	suspended late 1917
Мечеслав [Mecheslav] (ex-Лейтенант Ломбард [Leytenant Lombard])			Russo-Baltic Wks, Revel	8.1915	Summer 1917	---	suspended late 1917

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1260
Displacement full, t	1450
Length, m	98.0
Breadth, m	9.34
Draught, m	3.90
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 AEG steam turbines, 4 Vulkan boilers
Power, h. p.	30000
Max speed, kts	34
Fuel, t	oil 350
Endurance, nm(kts)	1800(16)
Armament	4 x 1 - 102/60, 1 x 1 - 76/28 Lender, 2 x 1 - 7.6/94, 3 x 3 - 450 TT, 80 mines
Complement	150

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Project history

Large batch of turbine-driven destroyers of Imperial  Russian Navy. Built in many series with foreign technical help and possessed a number inter-subclass differences. Common for all ships were artillery (102mm/60 guns), powerful torpedo side salvo (from 8 to 12 450mm torpedoes in twin-and triple mounts) and, except for a lead ship, twin-shaft turbine machinery and a three-funnel outline profile.    Novik was built under the design of Putilov plant and was equipped with triple-shaft Curtis-AEG-Vulkan machinery and 6 Vulkan boilers. At the moment of commission she was one of the largest (1260t), well armed (4 102mm guns and 4 twin 450mm TTs) and fastest ships of this type in the world. On trials she shown average 36.3kts speed (maximum 37.3kts) at 41910hp.     On her construction basis for Black Sea Fleet series of Schastlivy class was designed. They differed by machinery structure (2 shafts and 5 boilers), moderated to 30kts speed and armament structure: 3 102mm guns and 5 twin TTs.     They, in turn, have formed a basis for design of Baltic Fleet Orfey, Leytenant Ilyin and Gavriil classes. Number of boilers on them was moderated to four, and armament in an ultimate variant included 4 102mm guns and 3 triple TTs. The engineering design was developed with the help of Blohm und Voss and Vulkan. At identical general arrangement, dimensions and appearance destroyers differed with type of turbines and boilers: Orfey class had Curtis-AEG-Vulkan turbines and Normand-Vulkan boilers; Leytenant Ilyin class Brown-Boveri-Parsons turbines and Normand boilers; Gavriil class Curtiss-AEG-Vulkan turbines and Normand boilers. On trials the majority of the ships exceeded 31kts.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Gavriil, Konstantin and Svoboda were sunk on British mines in Koporsky Bay (Gulf of Finland) 21.10.1919.