Soviet destroyer Strogy (1939)

For other ships with the same name, see Soviet destroyer Strogy (1967).
An unidentified Storozhevoy-class destroyer in the Black Sea
History
Soviet Union
NameStrogy (Строгий (Strict))
Ordered2nd Five-Year Plan
BuilderShipyard No. 190 (Zhdanov), Leningrad
Yard number523
Laid down26 October 1938
Launched31 December 1939
Completed22 September 1942
Commissioned30 August 1941
Renamed
  • SDK-13, 20 March 1956
  • SS-18, 27 December 1956
  • SM-16, 14 September 1963
Reclassified
  • As rescue and decontamination ship, 17 February 1956
  • As rescue ship, 27 December 1956
  • As target ship, 14 September 1963
Stricken26 June 1964
FateScrapped, 1964–1965
General characteristics (Storozhevoy, 1941)
Class and typeStorozhevoy-class destroyer
Displacement
Length112.5 m (369 ft 1 in) (o/a)
Beam10.2 m (33 ft 6 in)
Draft3.98 m (13 ft 1 in)
Installed power
Propulsion2 shafts, 2 steam turbine sets
Speed40.3 knots (74.6 km/h; 46.4 mph) (trials)
Endurance2,700 nmi (5,000 km; 3,100 mi) at 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph)
Complement207 (271 wartime)
Sensors and
processing systems		Mars hydrophones
Armament

Strogy (Russian: Строгий, lit. 'Strict') was one of 18 Storozhevoy-class destroyers (officially known as Project 7U) built for the Soviet Navy during the late 1930s. Although she began construction as a Project 7 Gnevny-class destroyer, Strogy was rebuilt to the modified Project 7U design.

Still under construction when Operation Barbarossa began in June 1941, the destroyer was placed in service as a floating artillery battery in September. Strogy spent the Siege of Leningrad providing naval gunfire support and was completed in September 1942. After the war, she officially joined the Baltic Fleet and began a refit in 1953. The latter became a conversion into a rescue ship ultimately designated SS-18 and she was transferred to the Northern Fleet after the completion of the conversion in 1958. Reduced to a missile target ship in 1963, she was struck from the Navy List a year later, then scrapped.