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Gromkiy 1940s

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Гневный [Gnevnyy]		501	190 Zhdanov Yd, Leningrad	12.1935	13.7.1936	12.1938	sunk 23.6.1941
Грозный [Groznyy]		502	190 Zhdanov Yd, Leningrad	12.1935	31.7.1936	12.1938	test ship 2.1956
Громкий [Gromkiy]		503	190 Zhdanov Yd, Leningrad	4.1936	6.12.1937	12.1938	target 4.1958
Грозящий [Grozyashchiy]		513/301	190 Zhdanov Yd, Leningrad // 189 Ordzhonikidze Yd, Leningrad	6.1936	5.1.1937	9.1939	stricken 8.1953
Гордый [Gordyy]		514	190 Zhdanov Yd, Leningrad	6.1936	10.6.1937	12.1938	sunk 14.11.1941
Гремящий [Gremyashchiy]		515	190 Zhdanov Yd, Leningrad	7.1936	12.8.1937	8.1938	test ship 12.1956
Стерегущий [Steregushchiy]		516	190 Zhdanov Yd, Leningrad	8.1936	18.1.1938	10.1939	stricken 4.1958
Решительный [Reshitelnyy]		229	198 Marti Yd, Nikolayev // 199 Yd, Komsomolsk-on-Amur	11.1935 // 1936	18.10.1937	---	foundered incomplete 8.11.1938
Расторопный [Rastoropnyy]		312	198 Marti Yd, Nikolayev // 199 Yd, Komsomolsk-on-Amur	2.1936 // 12.1936	25.6.1938	1.1940	rescue vessel 2.1956
Разящий [Razyashchiy]		313	198 Marti Yd, Nikolayev // 202 Yd, Vladivostok	2.1936 // 11.1936	24.3.1938	12.1940	target 4.1956
Бодрый [Bodryy]		314	198 Marti Yd, Nikolayev	12.1935	1.8.1936	11.1938	target 2.1956
Рьяный [Ryanyy]		315	198 Marti Yd, Nikolayev // 199 Yd, Komsomolsk-on-Amur	12.1935 // 1936	31.5.1937	8.1939	target 4.1956
Резкий [Rezkiy]		319	198 Marti Yd, Nikolayev // 202 Yd, Vladivostok	5.1936 // 7.1938	29.4.1940	8.1942	to China 7.1955 (撫順 [Fu Shun])
Быстрый [Bystryy]		320	198 Marti Yd, Nikolayev	4.1936	5.11.1936	3.1939	sunk 1.7.1941
Бойкий [Boykiy]		321	198 Marti Yd, Nikolayev	12.1935	29.10.1936	3.1939	test ship 2.1956
Беспощадный [Besposhchadnyy]		322	198 Marti Yd, Nikolayev	5.1936	5.12.1936	10.1939	sunk 6.10.1943
Ретивый [Retivyy]		323	198 Marti Yd, Nikolayev // 199 Yd, Komsomolsk-on-Amur	8.1936 // 7.1937	27.10.1937	10.1941	to China 1.1955 (太原 [Tai Yuan])
Решительный [Reshitelnyy] (ex-Поспешный [Pospeshnyy])		324	198 Marti Yd, Nikolayev // 199 Yd, Komsomolsk-on-Amur	8.1936 // 8.1939	30.4.1940	8.1941	to China 1.1955 (長春 [Chang Chun])
Ревностный [Revnostnyy] (ex-Проворный [Provornyy])		325	198 Marti Yd, Nikolayev // 199 Yd, Komsomolsk-on-Amur	8.1936 // 9.1937	22.5.1941	12.1941	target 4.1958
Разъярённый [Raz`yaryonnyy] (ex-Развитой [Razvitoy], ex-Передовой [Peredovoy])		326	198 Marti Yd, Nikolayev // 199 Yd, Komsomolsk-on-Amur	9.1936 // 9.1937	22.5.1941	12.1941	heating vessel 2.1956
Рекордный [Rekordnyy] (ex-Прыткий [Prytkiy])		327	198 Marti Yd, Nikolayev // 202 Yd, Vladivostok	9.1936 // 8.1938	6.4.1939	1.1941	to China 7.1955 (鞍山 [An Shan])
Редкий [Redkiy] (ex-Пылкий [Pylkiy])		328	198 Marti Yd, Nikolayev // 199 Yd, Komsomolsk-on-Amur	9.1936 // 11.1938	28.9.1941	11.1942	target 4.1958
Стремительный [Stremitelnyy]		291	189 Ordzhonikidze Yd, Leningrad	31.7.1936	4.2.1937	11.1938	sunk 20.7.1941
Сокрушительный [Sokrushitelnyy]		292	189 Ordzhonikidze Yd, Leningrad	10.1936	23.8.1937	8.1939	foundered 24.11.1942
Сметливый [Smetlivyy]		294	189 Ordzhonikidze Yd, Leningrad	9.1936	16.7.1937	11.1938	sunk 5.11.1941
Ловкий [Lovkiy]		295	189 Ordzhonikidze Yd, Leningrad	9.1936	---	---	cancelled 1937
Лёгкий [Lyogkiy]		296	189 Ordzhonikidze Yd, Leningrad	10.1936	---	---	cancelled 1937
Резвый [Rezvyy]		298	189 Ordzhonikize Yd, Leningrad // 202 Yd, Vladivostok	11.1935 // 8.1936	24.9.1937	1.1940	stricken 4.1958
Безупречный [Bezuprechnyy]		1069	200 61 Kommunar Yd, Nikolayev	8.1936	25.6.1937	10.1939	sunk 26.6.1942
Бдительный [Bditelnyy]		1070	200 61 Kommunar Yd, Nikolayev	8.1936	29.6.1937	10.1939	sunk 2.7.1942
Бурный [Burnyy]		1071	200 61 Kommunar Yd, Nikolayev	8.1936	---	---	cancelled 1937
Боевой [Boevoy]		1072	200 61 Kommunar Yd, Nikolayev	8.1936	---	---	cancelled 1937
Разумный [Razumnyy] (ex-Прочный [Prochnyy])		1075	200 61 Kommunar, Nikolayev // 202 Yd, Vladivostok	7.1936 // 1937	30.6.1939	11.1941	target 2.1960
Пронзительный [Pronzitelnyy]		1079	200 61 Kommunar Yd, Nikolayev	10.1936	---	---	cancelled 1937
Поражающий [Porazhayushchiy]		1080	200 61 Kommunar Yd, Nikolayev	12.1936	---	---	cancelled 1937

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1657
Displacement full, t	2039
Length, m	112.8
Breadth, m	10.2
Draught, m	3.27 mean 4.10 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 GTZA-24 geared steam turbines sets, 3 triangle-shaped boilers
Power, h. p.	48000
Max speed, kts	37
Fuel, t	oil 535
Endurance, nm(kts)	2720(20)
Armament	4 x 1 - 130/50 B-13, 2 x 1 - 76/52 34K, 2 x 1 - 45/43 21K, 2 x 1 - 12.7/79, 2 x 3 - 533 TT, 2 DCR (10), 56 mines Rezkiy, Redkiy: 4 x 1 - 130/50 B-13, 2 x 1 - 76/52 34K, 3 x 1 - 37/63 70K, 4 x 1 - 12.7/79, 2 x 3 - 533 TT, 2 DCT, 2 DCR (40), 56 mines
Electronic equipment	Mars hydrophone
Complement	246

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Project history

Built under 1933-1938 Naval shipbuilding programme. Italian destroyer Maestrale served as prototype, from her arrangement and construction of machinery, in particular, was borrowed. The project 7 has been approved in December, 1934. Mass building of a class has begun in 1935, 53 ships were laid down, thus ships intended for Pacific, were laid down in Nikolaev and transported in the taken apart kind to the Far East for completion.     As a whole rather successful ships, ensured to the Soviet Navy an exit on qualitatively new level. Thanks to a linear arrangement of machinery, allowed to deduce smoke ducts of all boilers into one wide and stocky funnel, ships possessed a graceful prompt outline profile. The hull was gathered under the mixed scheme: longitudinal amidships and cross-section at ship ends. As has shown operating experience, in places of transition from one system to another there were the raised stresses leading to rends and even a brake-off of the ships ends. Ships shown high speed qualities: on trials lead Gnevny reached 39.37kts at 53100hp and Ryany in 1945 shown 39.4kts at 56500hp. However an endurance was appeared significantly below than designed.     In total on project 7 29 ships have been built; 18 more were completed under project 7u, and 6 hulls were taken apart on slipways. Reshitelny (i) under tow to Vladivostok 8.11.1938 has been wrecked by a storm on rocks S off Soviet Harbour.

Modernizations

1941, Gremyashchiy, Groznyy, Gromkiy, Sokrushitelnyy: + 2 x 1 - 37/63 70K

1942 - 1944, all survived: + 2 DCT (67 DC at all), type 128 sonar

early 1942, Ryanyy, Steregushchiy, Rastoropnyy, Rezvyy, Razyashchiy, Rekordnyy, Reshitelnyy, Retivyy, Razumnyy, Revnostnyy, Raz`yaryonnyy: - 2 x 1 - 45/43 + 3 x 1 - 37/63 70K, 2 x 1 - 12.7/79

1942, Bodryy, Bystryy, Boykiy, Bezuprechnyy, Besposhchadnyy, Bditelnyy, Grozyashchiy: - 2 x 1 - 45/43; + 3 x 1 - 37/63 70K

1942, Gremyashchiy, Groznyy, Sokrushitelnyy; 1943, Gromkiy: - 2 x 1 - 45/43; + 2 x 1 - 37/63 70K, 2 x 2 - 12.7/90, type 286M radar

1942 - 1943, all survived except Rezkiy and Redkiy: + 2 DCT (30 - 40 at all)

1943, Razumnyy, Raz`yaryonnyy: - 2 x 1 - 45/43; + 4 x 1 - 37/63 70K, 2 x 2 - 12.7/90, type 286M radar

1943, Boykiy; 1944, Bodryy: + 2 x 1 - 37/63 70K, 2 x 2 - 12.7/90

1943, Grozyashchiy: + 1 x 1 - 76/52 34K, 1 x 1 - 37/63 70K, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk IV, 1 x 2 - 12.7/90

1944, Grozyashchiy: - 1 x 1 - 20/70; + 2 x 1 - 37/63 70K

1945, Ryanyy, Rastoropnyy, Rezvyy, Razyashchiy, Rekordnyy, Reshitelnyy, Retivyy, Revnostnyy, Rezkiy, Redkiy: + (1 - 2) x 1 - 37/63 70K, 2 x 1 - 12.7/79, type 291 radar

1949, Gremyashchiy, Ryanyy; 1950, Razyashchiy; 1951, Rastoropnyy; 1952, Rekordnyy, Revnostnyy; 1953, Reshitelnyy; 1954, Groznyy, Retivyy; 1955, Rezkiy; 1956, Gromkiy, Redkiy; 1957, Razumnyy: all were armed with 4 x 1 - 130/51 B-13, 4 x 2 - 37/70 V-11, 2 x 3 - 533 TT, 2 DCT, 2 DCR (67), 60 mines, Giuys-1, Rif-1, Vympel-2 radars, Tamir-5N sonar; standard displacement was 1900 t, max speed was 34 - 35kts.

Naval service

To the beginning of Great Patriotic War Gnevny, Gordy, Grozyashchiy, Smetlivy and Steregushchiy served on Baltic; Gremyashchiy, Grozny, Gromkiy, Sokrushitelny and Stremitelny on the North; Bditelny, Bezuprechny, Besposhchadny, Bodry, Boykiy and Bystry on the Black Sea; remaining ships on Pacific, but Razumny and Razyaryonny in 1942 passed to the Northern Fleet.    Gnevny 23.6.1941 was lost on German mine in the entrance to the Gulf of Finland. Smetlivy and Gordy were lost on German mines in Gulf of Finland during evacuation of Hanko 5.11.1941 and 14.11.1941 respectively. Steregushchiy 21.9.1941 was sunk by German aircraft at Peterhof; salvaged 20.7.1944, re-commissioned in 1945, but ultimately repaired only in 1948.    Stremitelny 20.7.1941 was sunk by German aircraft at Polyarny. Sokrushitelny 20.11.1942 was broken apart during a storm in Barents Sea; 22.11.1942 she was left by salvaging ships; the exact place and loss time are unknown.    Bystry 1.7.1941 was stricken by ground mine at Sevastopol and sunk; she was salvaged 13.7.1941, 30.8.1941 towed off to Kilen-bay where ultimately sunk by German aircraft. Bezuprechny 26.6.1942 was sunk by German aircraft S of Crimea. Bditelny 2.7.1942 was sunk by German aircraft at Novorossiysk. Besposhchadny 6.10.1943 was sunk by German aircraft S of Yalta.