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Destroyer Bessledny
Project 56 / Kotlin Class
 

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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