Gremyashchy was the lead ship of the Kanin-class destroyer of the Soviet Navy.[1]
Gremyashchy in 1983
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History | |
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Soviet Union | |
Name |
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Namesake | Thunderous in Russian |
Ordered | 17 December 1957 |
Builder | Zhdanov Shipyard |
Laid down | 25 February 1958 |
Launched | 30 April 1959 |
Commissioned | 30 June 1960 |
Decommissioned | 20 October 1991 |
Renamed | OS-315 |
Homeport | Severomorsk |
Fate | Scrapped, 1994 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Kanin-class destroyer |
Displacement |
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Length | 126.1 m (414 ft) |
Beam | 12.7 m (42 ft) |
Draught | 4.2 m (14 ft) |
Installed power | 72,000 hp (54,000 kW) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | as built 34.5 knots (63.9 km/h; 39.7 mph) |
Complement | 320 |
Sensors and processing systems |
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Armament |
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Aviation facilities | Helipad |
Construction and career
editThe ship was built at Zhdanov Shipyard in Leningrad and was launched on 30 April 1959 and commissioned into the Northern Fleet on 30 June 1960.[2]
In the period from 1966 to 29 January 1968 at the Zhdanov Shipyard, she was modernized according to the project 57-A, as a result of which, on 20 January 1969, she was reclassified into a large anti-submarine ship (BOD).
From 14 to 27 May 1970, she undergone a refit.
She made a visit to Cuba, in 1971 - visits to Norway and the Netherlands. In the same year, while in the war zone, she performed combat missions to provide assistance to the armed forces of Egypt.
On 7 July 1987, She was decommissioned, disarmed and reclassified into an experimental vessel (OS).
On 25 August 1988, she was renamed OS-315.
On 2 October 1991, the former Gremyashchy was excluded from the lists of the Navy ships in connection with the transfer to the OFI for dismantling and sale.[3]
Gallery
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Gremyashchy on 26 October 1983
Citations
edit- ^ "Destroyers - Project 57bis". russianships.info. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Архив фотографий кораблей русского и советского ВМФ". navsource.narod.ru. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
- ^ S., Berezhnoy (1995). "Эсминцы типа "Гневный" (проект 57-бис)". Marine Collection. 1.
References
edit- Budzbon, Przemysław; Chumbley, Stephen (1995). Gardiner, Robert (ed.). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-132-7. OCLC 34267261.
In Russian
edit- Соколов А. Н. (2007). Расходный материал флота. Миноносцы СССР и России. М.: Военная книга. ISBN 978-5-902863-13-7.
External links
editMedia related to Gremyashchiy (ship, 1959) at Wikimedia Commons
- Project 57 Krupnyy Project 57A Kanin, Federation of American Scientists, 7 September 2000, retrieved 26 December 2014
- "Kanin Class Destroyers – Complete Ship List". Russian-ships.info. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
- Gallery of the ship. Navsource. Retrieved 11 August 2021