- Design and description
- Construction and service
- Citations
- Sources
- Further reading
{{Infobox ship image| Ship image=Aerial view of Razumny A 22471.jpg | Soviet destroyer|Razumny|1939|2}}, March 1944
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=Soviet Union | Soviet Union|naval}} | Ship name=Reshitelny | Ship renamed= | Ship ordered=2nd Five-Year Plan | Ship builder=*Shipyard No. 198 (Andre Marti (South)), Nikolayev- Shipyard No. 199, Komsomolsk-on-Amur
| Ship original cost= | Ship yard number=324 | Ship way number= | Ship laid down=*23 August 1936 | Ship launched=30 April 1940 | Ship struck=17 February 1956 | Ship reclassified= | Ship completed= 5 September 1941 | Ship commissioned= | Ship fate=Transferred to the People's Liberation Army Navy, 14 January 1955 | Ship notes=
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}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= (Gnevny as completed, 1938) | Gnevny|destroyer}} | 1612|t|LT|lk=in}} (standard)- {{cvt|2039|t|LT}} (deep load)
| 112.8|m|ftin}} (o/a) | 10.2|m|ftin}} | 4.8|m|ftin}} | Ship propulsion=*2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines | 38|kn|lk=in}} | 2720|nmi|lk=in}} at {{convert|19|kn}} | 48000|shp|kW|lk=on}} | Ship complement=197 (236 wartime) | Ship sensors=Mars hydrophone | Ship EW= | 130|mm}} guns- 2 × single {{cvt|76.2|mm|1}} AA guns
- 2 × single {{cvt|45|mm}} AA guns
- 2 × single {{cvt|12.7|mm}} AA machineguns
- 2 × triple {{cvt|533|mm}} torpedo tubes
- 60–95 mines
- 25 depth charges
| Ship notes=
}} | Reshitelny was one of 29 {{sclass-|Gnevny|destroyer}}s (officially known as Project 7) built for the Soviet Navy during the late 1930s. Originally named Pospeshny, she was renamed Reshitelny before completion in 1941, and was assigned to the Pacific Fleet. Design and descriptionHaving decided to build the large and expensive {{convert|40|kn|lk=in|adj=on}} {{sclass-|Leningrad|destroyer|0}} destroyer leaders, the Soviet Navy sought Italian assistance in designing smaller and cheaper destroyers. They licensed the plans for the {{sclass-|Folgore|destroyer|4}} and, in modifying it for their purposes, overloaded a design that was already somewhat marginally stable.[1] The Gnevnys had an overall length of {{convert|112.8|m|ftin|sp=us}}, a beam of {{convert|10.2|m|ftin|sp=us}}, and a draft of {{convert|4.8|m|ftin|sp=us}} at deep load. The ships were significantly overweight, almost {{convert|200|MT|LT|0|lk=on}} heavier than designed, displacing {{convert|1612|MT|LT}} at standard load and {{convert|2039|MT|LT}} at deep load. Their crew numbered 197 officers and sailors in peacetime and 236 in wartime.[2] The ships had a pair of geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller, rated to produce {{convert|48000|shp|lk=on}} using steam from three water-tube boilers which was intended to give them a maximum speed of {{convert|37|kn}}.[3] The designers had been conservative in rating the turbines and many, but not all, of the ships handily exceeded their designed speed during their sea trials. Others fell considerably short of it, although specific figures for most individual ships have not survived. Variations in fuel oil capacity meant that the range of the Gnevnys varied between {{convert|1670|to|3145|nmi|lk=in}} at {{convert|19|kn}}.[4] As built, the Gnevny-class ships mounted four {{convert|130|mm|in|adj=on|sp=us}} B-13 guns in two pairs of superfiring single mounts fore and aft of the superstructure. Anti-aircraft defense was provided by a pair of {{convert|76.2|mm|adj=on|sp=us|1}} 34-K AA guns in single mounts and a pair of {{convert|45|mm|adj=on|sp=us}} 21-K AA guns[5] as well as two {{convert|12.7|mm|adj=on|sp=us}} DK or DShK machine guns. They carried six {{cvt|533|mm|in}} torpedo tubes in two rotating triple mounts; each tube was provided with a reload. The ships could also carry a maximum of either 60 or 95 mines and 25 depth charges. They were fitted with a set of Mars hydrophones for anti-submarine work, although they were useless at speeds over {{convert|3|kn}}.[6] The ships were equipped with two K-1 paravanes intended to destroy mines and a pair of depth-charge throwers.[7] Construction and service Major components for the ship that became Reshitelny were laid down at Shipyard No. 198 (Andre Marti South) in Nikolayev on 23 August 1936 as yard number 324 and were then railed to Shipyard No. 199 at Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Siberia, for completion where the ship was laid down again on 23 August 1937 as Pospeshny. She was launched on 30 April 1940 and was renamed Reshitelny on 25 August before she was commissioned on 5 September 1941.[8] Citations1. ^Yakubov & Worth, pp. 99, 102–103
2. ^Yakubov & Worth, p. 101
3. ^Budzbon, p. 330
4. ^Yakubov & Worth, pp. 101, 106–107
5. ^Hill, p. 40
6. ^Yakubov & Worth, pp. 101, 105–106
7. ^Berezhnoy, p. 335
8. ^Rohwer & Monakov, p. 233
Sources- {{Cite book|title=Легендарные "семёрки" Эсминцы "сталинской" серии|last=Balakin|first=Sergey|publisher=Yauza/Eksmo|year=2007|isbn=978-5-699-23784-5|location=Moscow|pages=|language=Russian|trans-title=Legendary Sevens: Stalin's destroyer series}}
- {{Cite book|title=Крейсера и миноносцы. Справочник|last=Berezhnoy|first=Sergey|publisher=Voenizdat|year=2002|isbn=5-203-01780-8|location=Moscow|pages=|language=Russian|trans-title=Guide to Cruisers and Destroyers}}
- {{cite book|title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946|editor-last=Chesneau|publisher=Conway Maritime Press|location=Greenwich, UK|year=1980|isbn=0-85177-146-7|last=Budzbon|first=Przemysaw|pages=318–346|chapter=Soviet Union|editor-first=Roger}}
- {{cite book | last = Hill | first = Alexander | year = 2018 | title = Soviet Destroyers of World War II | place = Oxford, UK| publisher = Osprey Publishing| isbn = 978-1-4728-2256-7|series=New Vanguard|volume=256}}
- {{cite book |last1=Platonov |first1=Andrey V.|title=Энциклопедия советских надводных кораблей 1941—1945 |trans-title=Encyclopedia of Soviet Surface Ships 1941–1945 |date=2002 |publisher=Poligon |location=Saint Petersburg |isbn=5-89173-178-9 |language=Russian}}
- {{cite book|last=Rohwer|first=Jürgen|title=Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945: The Naval History of World War Two|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|year=2005|edition=Third Revised|isbn=1-59114-119-2|authorlink=Jürgen Rohwer}}
- {{cite book|last1=Rohwer|first1=Jürgen|last2=Monakov|first2=Mikhail S.|title=Stalin's Ocean-Going Fleet|publisher=Frank Cass|location=London|year=2001|isbn=0-7146-4895-7|lastauthoramp=y}}
- {{cite book|last1=Yakubov|first1=Vladimir|last2=Worth |first2=Richard |chapter=The Soviet Project 7/7U Destroyers|editor1-last=Jordan |editor1-first=John |editor2-last=Dent |editor2-first=Stephen |publisher=Conway|location=London|year=2008|title=Warship 2008|pages=99–114|isbn=978-1-84486-062-3|lastauthoramp=y}}
Further reading- {{cite book|last=Whitley|first=M. J.|title=Destroyers of World War 2|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|year=1988|isbn=0-87021-326-1}}
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