| Soviet destroyer Boyky (1959) | |
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| File:428-GX-KN 23563 (26528899830).jpg Boyky shadowed by US Navy P-3A Orion while en-route to Boston on 10 May 1975 | |
| Career (Soviet Union) |  |
| Name: |
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| Namesake: | Jaunty in Russian |
| Builder: | North Nikolayev Shipyard |
| Laid down: | 2 April 1959 |
| Launched: | 15 December 1959 |
| Commissioned: | 26 June 1961 |
| Decommissioned: | 9 February 1988 |
| Homeport: | Sevastopol |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1988 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & 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 |
Boyky was the seventh ship of the Kanin-class destroyer of the Soviet Navy.[1]
Construction and career[]
The ship was built at North Nikolayev Shipyard in Mykolaiv and was launched on 14 October 1959 and commissioned into the Black Sea Fleet on 3 December 1959.[2]
On October 14, 1961, the ship entered the Black Sea Fleet of the Soviet Navy. May 19, 1966 she was reclassified into a large missile ship (BRK). In the period from 6 to 11 August 1966, she paid a visit to Alexandria (Egypt). From 15 to 20 February 1969 was in Conakry (Guinea), and from 5 to 10 October - in Lagos (Nigeria).[3]
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Former Boyky foundered in Skogsøya Island, c. 1988
On June 8, 1970, the destroyer was transferred to the Red Banner Northern Fleet. In the period from October 23, 1970 to April 6, 1973 she was modernized and rebuilt according to the Project 57-A at the Shipyard named after 61 Communards in Nikolaev. November 2, 1972 transferred from the subclass of large missile ships to the subclass of large anti-submarine ships.[3]
On February 9, 1988, the destroyer was excluded from the Soviet Navy in connection with the delivery to the OFI for disarmament, dismantling and sale. On July 17, 1988, the Boyky's crew was disbanded. In the fall of 1988, the ship was sold to a Spanish company for cutting into metal, but on the way from the Kola Bay to El Ferrol on November 14, 1988, in a strong storm, she was thrown onto the coastal rocks off Skogsøya Island in the Norwegian Sea.[4]
References[]
- ↑ "Destroyers - Project 57bis". http://russianships.info/eng/warships/project_57bis.htm.
- ↑ R., Kazachkov (17 July 2009). "Catalog of slipway (serial) numbers of ships and vessels of the Navy of the USSR and Russia". http://navycollection.narod.ru/fleets/Russia/STN_by_R_Kazachkov/STN190.html.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Сайт "АТРИНА" • Эскадренные миноносцы пр.57-бис типа "Гневный", Krupn…". 2012-12-21. http://archive.today/GAPe.
- ↑ S.S., Berezhnoy (2002). Крейсера и миноносцы: Справочник. М.: Военное издательство. pp. 472. ISBN 5-203-01780-8.
- Gardiner, Robert (ed.); Chumbley, Stephen; Budzbon, Przemysław (1995). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-132-7. OCLC 34267261.
In Russian[]
- Соколов А. Н. (2007). Расходный материал флота. Миноносцы СССР и России. М.: Военная книга. ISBN 978-5-902863-13-7.
External links[]
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- "Project 57 Krupnyy Project 57A Kanin". Federation of American Scientists. 7 September 2000. http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/row/rus/57PLO.htm.
- "Kanin Class Destroyers – Complete Ship List". Russian-ships.info. http://russianships.info/eng/warships/project_57bis.htm.
- Gallery of the ship. Navsource. Retrieved 11 August 2021
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