''Zheleznyakov'' was one of eight
''Fidonisy''-class destroyers built for the
Imperial Russian Navy during
World War I. She was originally named ''Korfu'' () before she was renamed ''Petrovsky'' () in 1925 and ''Zheleznyakov'' () in 1939.
Design and description
The ''Fidonisy''-class ships were designed as an improved version of the with an additional gun. ''Korfu'' displaced
normal and at
full load with an
overall length of , a
beam
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Streams of particles or energy
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**Laser beam
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**Charged particle beam, a spatially localized grou ...
of , and a
draft of at full load.
[Apalkov, p. 136] She was propelled by two Parsons
steam turbine
A steam turbine is a machine that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam and uses it to do mechanical work on a rotating output shaft. Its modern manifestation was invented by Charles Parsons in 1884. Fabrication of a modern steam turbin ...
s, each driving one propeller, designed to produce a total of using steam from five
3-drum Thorneycroft boilers for an intended maximum speed of . During her
sea trials, the ship reached a speed of . ''Korfu'' carried enough
fuel oil
Fuel oil is any of various fractions obtained from the distillation of petroleum (crude oil). Such oils include distillates (the lighter fractions) and residues (the heavier fractions). Fuel oils include heavy fuel oil, marine fuel oil (MFO), bun ...
to give her a range of at . Her crew numbered 136.
[Verstyuk & Gordeyev, p. 116][Berezhnoy, pp. 324–325]
The ''Fidonisy''-class ships mounted a main armament of four single
102 mm Pattern 1911 Obukhov guns, one on the
forecastle and three aft; one of these latter guns was
superfiring
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over the other two.
Anti-aircraft defense for ''Korfu'' and her sisters that were completed after the war was provided by a single
Lender gun on the
stern
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, a
Maxim cannon, and four M-1 machine guns. The destroyers mounted four triple
torpedo tube mounts
amidships with two reload torpedoes and could carry 80 M1908
naval mines. They were also fitted with a
Barr and Stroud
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rangefinder and two searchlights.
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Fidonisy-class destroyers
Ships built at the Black Sea Shipyard
1917 ships
Cold War destroyers of the Soviet Union