&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Aerial_view_of_Razumny_A_22471.jpg) Aerial view of sister ship Razumny, March 1944
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| History | |
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 Soviet Union | |
| Name | Sokrushitelny (Сокрушительный (Destructive)) |
| Ordered | 2nd Five-Year Plan |
| Builder | Shipyard No. 189 (Ordzhonikidze), Leningrad |
| Laid down | 29 October 1936 |
| Launched | 23 August 1937 |
| Completed | 13 August 1939 |
| Fate | Sunk during a storm, 21 November 1942 |
| General characteristics (Gnevny as completed, 1938) | |
| Class and type | Gnevny-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 1,612 t (1,587 long tons) (standard) |
| Length | 112.8 m (370 ft 1 in) (o/a) |
| Beam | 10.2 m (33 ft 6 in) |
| Draft | 4.8 m (15 ft 9 in) |
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| Propulsion | 2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines |
| Speed | 37 knots (69 km/h; 43 mph) (designed) |
| Range | 1,670–3,145 nmi (3,093–5,825 km; 1,922–3,619 mi) at 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
| Complement | 197 (236 wartime) |
| Sensors and processing systems | Mars hydrophone |
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Sokrushitelny (Russian: Сокрушительный, lit. 'Destructive') was one of 29 Gnevny-class destroyers (officially known as Project 7) built for the Soviet Navy during the late 1930s. Completed in 1939, she was initially assigned to the Baltic Fleet before she was transferred to the Northern Fleet in late 1939. After the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, the ship laid several minefields in the White and Barents Seas. Sokrushitelny spent most of her service escorting the Arctic Convoys, run by the British to provide weapons and supplies to the Soviets, or providing naval gunfire support to Soviet troops along the Arctic coast. The ship engaged a German ship just once, while defending Convoy QP 13 in early 1942. While escorting Convoy QP 15 in November, she sank during a severe storm after breaking in half. Most of her crew was rescued by other destroyers sent to her aid, although 35 crewmen were lost.