Russian destroyer Steregushchiy (1905)

History
Russian Empire
Name	Steregushchiy
Namesake	The Russian destroyer Steregushchiy (English "Guardian") of 1903
Builder	Lange & Sohn, Riga, Russia
Laid down	20 August [O.S. 7 August] 1904
Launched	4 July [O.S. 21 June] 1904
Commissioned	17 May [O.S. 4 May] 1906
Reclassified	From "mine cruiser" to destroyer 10 October [O.S. 27 September] 1907
Fate	To Russian Republic March [O.S. February] 1917
Russian Republic
Acquired	March [O.S. February] 1917
Fate	To Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic 7 November [O.S. 25 October] 1917
Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic
Acquired	7 November [O.S. 25 October] 1917
Fate	Scrapped 1922 or 1924 (see text)
Stricken	21 November 1925
General characteristics
Type	Ukrayna-class destroyer
Displacement	500 long tons (510 t) (standard)[1] 630 long tons (640 t) (full load)[1]
Length	63.2 m (207 ft 4 in)
Beam	7.24 m (23 ft 9 in)
Height	3.35 m (11 ft 0 in)
Draught	2.3 m (7 ft 7 in)
Propulsion	2 x vertical triple expansion steam engines, 4 x Normand boilers, 6,325 hp (4,717 kW)[2]
Speed	25.9 knots (48.0 km/h; 29.8 mph)[2]
Range	1,105 nautical miles (2,046 km; 1,272 mi)
Complement	90
Armament	As built: 1 × 75 mm 50 caliber Pattern 1892 guns 4 × 57 mm guns 4 × Maxim machine guns 3 x 456 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes 16 x mines From 1910: 2 x 102 mm 60 caliber Pattern 1911 guns 1 x 37 mm gun 2 x 456 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes 16 x mines From 1916: 2 x 102 mm 60 caliber Pattern 1911 guns 1 x 40 mm antiaircraft gun 2 x machine guns 2 x 456 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes 16 x mines[2]
Service record
Operations:	World War I Battle of the Gulf of Riga Battle of Moon Sound Russian Civil War Ice Cruise of the Baltic Fleet

Steregushchiy (Стерегущий, English "Guardian") was a Ukrayna-class destroyer built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the early 20th century. She served in the Baltic Sea, seeing action in World War I between 1914 and 1917 in the Imperial Russian Navy and its successor, the navy of the Russian Republic. She then joined the naval forces of what would become the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic — forces which later became the Soviet Navy upon the foundation of the Soviet Union — and served in them during the Russian Civil War (1917–1921).

Steregushchiy was named for the previous Russian destroyer Steregushchiy, which was sunk in 1904 in a heroic action in the Yellow Sea during the Russo-Japanese War.