Okhotnik-class destroyer

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Class overview
Operators
Preceded byGaidamak class
Succeeded byNovik
Built1905–1907
Completed4
Lost1
Scrapped3
General characteristics (as built)
TypeOkhotnik-class destroyer
Displacement740 t (730 long tons)
Length75.18 m (246 ft 8 in)
Beam8.2 m (26 ft 11 in)
Draft3.35 m (11 ft) (deep load)
Installed power
Propulsion2 shafts; 2 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph)
Range2,200–2,400 nmi (4,100–4,400 km; 2,500–2,800 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement95
Armament

The Okhotnik class consisted of four destroyers built for the Imperial Russian Navy during the first decade of the 20th century. The ships served in the Baltic Fleet and participated in the First World War.

Ships

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Construction data
Name Laid down Launched Completed Fate
Okhotnik 13 October 1905 1 August 1906 27 September 1906 Sunk by mine, 13 September 1917, raised and scrapped
General Kondratenko 18 August 1905 25 May 1906 27 September 1907 scrapped, 1925
Pogranichnik 13 October 1905 6 July 1906 27 September 1907 scrapped, 1925
Sibirsky Strelok March 1905 6 October 1905 3 July 1906 Renamed Konstruktor, 1926, and converted into experimental ship. Scrapped, 1957

References

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Bibliography

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