Soviet destroyer Yakov Sverdlov
Service
- as Novík9 September 1913 — November 1917
- as Yakov SverdlovNovember 1917 — 9 September 1918
- Name
- Yakov Sverdlov
- Builder
- Putilovsky Plant, St. Petersburg
- Laid down
- 1 July 1910
- Launched
- 4 July 1911
- Commissioned
- 9 September 1913
- Fate
- Sunk by a German mine on 28 August 1941
By mine (1941) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications — As built
- Displacement, standard
- 1,260 long tons (1,280 t)
- Length
- 102.4 m (336 ft)
- Beam
- 9.5 m (31.2 ft)
- Draught
- 7.2 m (23.6 ft)
- Speed
- 37.3 knots (69.1 km/h, 42.9 mph)
- Range
- 2,000 nmi (3,704 km)
- Complement
- 142
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
Yakov Sverdlov was a destroyer built for the Soviet Navy. Putilovsky Plant, St. Petersburg laid her keel on 1 July 1910. She entered service on 9 September 1913, having been launched on 4 July 1911.
Displacement was 1,260 long tons. She measured 102.4 m (336 ft) long with a beam of 9.5 m (31 ft). Her designed speed was 37.3 knots, and she carried a complement of 142.
Her main battery was four 102 mm (4.0 in) guns. 39,000 shp drove three shafts.
She then passed to the Soviet Navy, serving as Yakov Sverdlov from November 1917.
She was sunk on 28 August 1941 by mine, at 59°40′N 25°32′E. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
This vessel is recorded in 2 configurations. Wartime refits changed armament and complement substantially, so each is kept separately rather than averaged into one set of figures. The figures above are as built.
As built
- Propulsion
- 3 shafts, steam turbines
- Power
- 6 water-tube boilers
- 39000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × single 102 mm guns
- 4 × twin 457 mm torpedo tubes
- 60 mines
After 1929 rebuild
- Displacement, standard
- 1,572 long tons (1,597 t)
- Length
- 102.4 m (336 ft)
- Beam
- 9.5 m (31.2 ft)
- Draught
- 3.5 m (11.5 ft)
- Speed
- 32 knots (59.3 km/h, 36.8 mph)
- Complement
- 168
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
- Propulsion
- 3 shaft AEG-Vulcan turbines
- 6 Vulcan boilers
- 40000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × 1 – 102 mm guns
- 1 × 1 – 76.2 mm AA gun
- 3 × 3 – 450 mm torpedo tubes
- 50 mines
Sources
- Facts harvested from Soviet destroyer Yakov Sverdlov on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Arkhiv fototografiy korabley russkogo i sovetskogo VMF. (Архив фототографий кораблей русского и советского ВМФ.) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons