 Sister ship Z39 underway after the war
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| History | |
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 Nazi Germany | |
| Name | Z33 |
| Ordered | 19 September 1939 |
| Builder | AG Weser (Deschimag), Bremen |
| Yard number | W1003 |
| Laid down | 22 December 1940 |
| Launched | 15 September 1941 |
| Commissioned | 6 February 1943 |
| Decommissioned | Late April 1945 |
| Out of service | early April 1945 |
| Captured | 9 May 1945 |
| Fate | Transferred to the Soviet Union, 2 January 1946 |
 Soviet Union | |
| Name | Provornyy (Проворный) |
| Namesake | Russian word for "nimble" |
| Acquired | 2 January 1946 |
| Commissioned | 1946 |
| Decommissioned | 22 April 1955 |
| Reclassified |
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| Fate | Scrapped, 1962 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type | Type 1936A (Mob) destroyer |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 127 m (416 ft 8 in) (o/a) |
| Beam | 12 m (39 ft 4 in) |
| Draft | 4.62 m (15 ft 2 in) |
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| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) |
| Range | 2,950 nmi (5,460 km; 3,390 mi) at 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
| Complement | 316–336 |
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Z33 was a Type 1936A (Mob) destroyer built for the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) during World War II. Completed in 1943, the ship was damaged during the raid on the island of Spitsbergen in September and spent all of 1944 in Norwegian waters. She was damaged by British aircraft attacking the battleship Tirpitz in July. Z33 escorted troop convoys from northern Norway when the Germans began evacuating the area beginning in October. She ran aground in early 1945 as she was sailing for the Baltic and was badly damaged. While the ship was being towed to port for repairs, she and her escorts were attacked by Allied fighter-bombers. Z33 finally reached the Baltic in early April, but was reduced to reserve for lack of fuel. The ship was transferred to Cuxhaven and decommissioned shortly before the end of the war.
Z33 was allocated to the Soviet Union in late 1945 and turned over at the beginning of 1946. Renamed Provornyy, the ship subsequently served with the Soviet Navy. She became a training ship in 1954 before she was converted to an accommodation ship the following year. Provornyy was badly damaged by a fire in 1960 and was scrapped in 1962.