| Izyaslav-class destroyer | |
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| Class overview | |
| Builders: | Bocker and Lange, Reval, Estonia |
| Operators: |
 Russian Navy Soviet Navy Estonian Navy Peruvian Navy |
| Preceded by: | Orfey class destroyer |
| In commission: | 1916–1954 |
| Planned: | 5 |
| Completed: | 3 |
| Cancelled: | 2 |
| Lost: | 2 |
| Retired: | 1 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Displacement: |
1,350 long tons (1,370 t) standard 1,440 long tons (1,460 t) full load |
| Length: | 99.1 m (325 ft 2 in) |
| Beam: | 9.4 m (30 ft 10 in) |
| Draught: | 3.0 m (9 ft 10 in) |
| Propulsion: |
2 shaft Brown Boverei turbines 5 boilers 25,500 hp |
| Speed: | 33 knots (38 mph; 61 km/h) |
| Complement: | 150 |
| Armament: |
• 5 × 4 in (100 mm) guns • 2 × machine guns • 9 × 18-inch (457 mm) torpedo tubes, (3×3) • 80 mines |
| Service record | |
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| Part of: | Baltic Fleet |
The Izyaslav-class (Russian: Изяслав) were a group of destroyers built for the Baltic Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy. They were modified versions of the Orfey-class destroyer built in Russia with the assistance of the French Company Augustin Normand. These ships fought in World War I, Russian Civil War, Estonian War of Independence, and World War II.
Design[]
The ships were an enlarged version of previous designs with a longer raised forecastle, and Frahm-type anti-rolling tanks. An extra 4-inch gun was added and the number of torpedo tubes reduced.
Ships[]
These ships were built by Bocker and Lange in Reval, Estonia. The ships were delayed due to ordering machinery from Switzerland which was embargoed on the outbreak of World War I. New machinery was ordered from Britain.
| ship | Launched | Fate |
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| Avtroil - renamed Lennuk - renamed Almirante Guise | 13 January 1915 | Captured by the British in 1919, given to the Estonian Navy and sold by the Estonians to Peru, in 1933, scrapped in 1954 |
| Izyaslav - renamed Karl Marx | 27 June 1915 | Sunk 8 August 1941 |
| Prymyslav - renamed Kalinin | 9 August 1915 | Sunk 28 August 1941 |
| Bryachislav | 1 October 1915 | Evacuated to Petrograd but scrapped incomplete 1923 |
| Fedor Stratilat | 1915 | Evacuated to Petrograd but scrapped incomplete 1923 |
Avtroil, between 1913-1919
Izyaslav, 1921
References[]
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- Conway's All the world's Fighting Ships 1906-1922
- M.J. Whitley, Destroyers of World War 2, 1988 Cassell Publishing ISBN 1-85409-521-8
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