The Kotlin class ships were cold-war era destroyers
built for the Soviet Navy. The Russian name for
this class was Project 56. Following Project 41
the Neustrashimy Ñlass, was made as planned, complete
with a displacement of 3230 tons. The first ship
was laid down in March 1953, and just 27 units
were built. On artillery and anti-submarine armament
they were significantly inferior to American destroyers
at the time.
The basic design of the Project 56 were classic
destroyers, whose main armament consisted of 4
working universal caliber 130 mm in two closed
turrets, with characteristic large sizes, fore
and aft. They turret mounted, versatile, and automatic.
Arms were complemented by 4 quad-linked 45 mm
anti-aircraft guns (position on the bow, stern
and one on each side). The ships had 10 torpedo
launchers in two launchers on board, in the axis
of symmetry of the hull. ASW armament was weak
- corresponding to the standards of World War
II, and it formed two chute and six depth charges
projectors.
The ships were were made of steel, and only some
elements of alloy. The hull was divided into 16
main transverse watertight compartments. The ships
designed crossover - two boilers and one turbine
in two joint compartments separated by two others,
in order to increase survivability. The consequence
was the silhouette of the ship was two spaced,
short, wide and tilted stacks. In combination
with high sheer bow (reaching to a height of 8,35
m above the waterline) and strongly inclined,
straight stem, it gave ships an elegant look.
The main truss mast was located just behind the
superstructure bow, followed by the first chimney.
Behind the complex superstructure of the forward
torpedo was a low superstructure amidships with
a second, lower mast, two positions antiaircraft
guns on the sides, artillery radar platform and
the second chimney. On the aft superstructure
was the second torpedo battery, followed by a
small superstructure aft position.
Fourteen ships of this series were upgraded according
to the Project 56PLO. The second torpedo tube
and bombers were removed from the ships, anti-submarine
defense posts were equipped, two RBU-6000 or RBU-2500
were installed. The remaining torpedo tube was
adapted for firing both anti-ship and anti-submarine
torpedoes.
Destroyer Bessledny on 15 September 1953 was
enlisted in the lists of the ships of the Soviet
Fleet. Laid down on 01 April 1954 at the Shipyard
¹445 named after 61 kommunara, Nikolaev (yard
No.1205), launched on 05 November 1955, commissioned
on 31 October 1956 and was assigned to the Black
Sea Fleet.
From 20 June to 24 July 1957 through the Suez
Canal passed from Sevastopol to Vladivostok and
01.08.1957 was listed as part of the Pacific Fleet.
From 25 May 1973 to 08 May 1976 modernized at
the Dalzavod in Vladivostok according to the Project
56PLO.
On 08 April 1988 the ship was excluded from the
lists of the Pacific Fleet.
In January 1990, she was sold to a private company
in India for scrapping, but in the same month
she sank while being towed during a severe storm
in the Taiwan Strait.
Specifications |
Displacement (tons): |
Standard: |
2667 |
Full load: |
3230 |
Dimensions (m): |
Length: |
126,1 |
Beam: |
12,76 |
Draft: |
4,26 |
Speed (knots): |
38 |
Range: |
3880 nmi (14,3 knots), 3850
nmi (14,7 knots), 3090 nmi (17,9 knots), 685
nmi (37,9 knots), 642 nmi (38 knots) |
Autonomy (days): |
10 |
Propulsion: |
2x36000 hp TV-8 GTZA, 2 fixed
pitch propellers, 2x400 kW turbine-type generators,
2x200 kW diesel-generators |
Armament: |
2x2 130 mm SM-2-1 (850 rounds)
- Sfera-56 with radar Yakor-M1 fire control
system
4x4 45 mm SM-20ZIF (13200 rounds) - 2 Fut-B
radars
2x5 533 mm PTA-53-56 torpedo tubes (10 53-57,
53-59 torpedoes) - Stalingrad T-56 with radar
Zarya fire control system (on Smyshleny at
first - Volna radar, on Nakhodchivy - Volna
radar not changed)
6 BMB-2 (30 BB-1 or BSP) - Shar-U fire control
system
2 depth charge throwers (18 BB-1 or BSP)
50 KB-3 mines or 50 AMD-50 mines or 50 GMZ
mines or 50 AGSB mines or 36 AMD-1000 mines |
Electronics: |
Fut-N air/surface search radar
(Rif on some ships), Neptun navigation radar,Machta
P4 ESM radar system, Nickel-K and Khrom-K
IFF, ARP-50 radio direction finder, Pegas-2
sonar |
Complement: |
284 (19 officers) |
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