ET 1913 g Amurskiy Sudostroitelnyy Zavod Bizon class destroyer

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ET 1913 g Amurskiy Sudostroitelnyy Zavod Bizon class Destroyer
Class overview
Name ET 1913 g Amurskiy Sudostroitelnyy Zavod Bizon class Destroyer
Operators Far Eastern Imperial Navy
Class before ET 1910 g Oniks class destroyer
Planned 9
Built 9
Active 9
General Characteristics
Type Destroyer
Displacement
  • 1290 tons standard
  • 1540 tons full load
Length 99.4 metres (326 ft)
Beam 9.3 metres (31 ft)
Draught 3.2 metres (10 ft)
Propulsion 2 shafts, 2 KhTGZ Steam turbines
Power
  • 5 watertube boilers
  • 37,000 ihp (28,000 kW)
Speed 33 kts
Range 2600 nm at 21 kts
Complement 130
Armament


Development

After the defeat in Far Eastern - Japanese war, the war experience and lessons were theraly analysed in the "Special committee of readjustment in naval affairs" which was formed after the humiliating defeat in the Tsusima straight. One of the main lessons of the war regarding torpedo ships were, that destroyers were far more versatile than just aggressive torpedo attackers. They performed vast range of different naval missions and thus the new requirement for future destroyers emphasized multipurpose capability. New type of destroyers were to operate in higher speeds and longer range with better sea keeping capabilities. This in return meant that the future destroyers would be considerably larger than the earlier ones. Novaya Verf build prototype ship for these new requirements called Oniks and after analyzing the performance of the new ship, a tender for total of 27 new destroyers were issued upon three shipyards; Novaya Verf in Dalny, Dalzavod in Vladivostok and Amurskiy Sudostroitelnyy Zavod in Nikolaev-na-Amure. Each shipyard were given set of design requirements but other than that, each company was responsible of designing their boats. It resulted 3 different group of relatively similar performance destroyers.

Amurskiy Sudostroitelnyy Zavod's "1913" class were completely indegenious design and featured first Far Eastern build steam turbines, made by the Kharbin Turbogeneratornogo Zavod, based on the AEG Vulcan turbines. This class were initially commisioned with the original armament fit descriped in the Naval Technical Committee's requirements but were later altered to have 3 120mm gun and 3 triple torpedo tubes.


Ships in class

Name Builder Laid down Launch Date Entered Service Fate
Bizon Amurskiy Sudostroitelnyy Zavod, Nikolaev-na-Amure July 1913 August 1914 February 1916 Extant in 1920
Sobol Amurskiy Sudostroitelnyy Zavod, Nikolaev-na-Amure July 1913 August 1914 February 1916 Extant in 1920
Barshuk Amurskiy Sudostroitelnyy Zavod, Nikolaev-na-Amure July 1913 August 1914 March 1916 Extant in 1920
Gornostay Amurskiy Sudostroitelnyy Zavod, Nikolaev-na-Amure June 1914 August 1915 March 1917 Extant in 1920
Khorek Amurskiy Sudostroitelnyy Zavod, Nikolaev-na-Amure June 1914 August 1915 March 1917 Extant in 1920
Kunitsa Amurskiy Sudostroitelnyy Zavod, Nikolaev-na-Amure June 1914 August 1915 March 1917 Extant in 1920
Laska Amurskiy Sudostroitelnyy Zavod, Nikolaev-na-Amure March 1915 April 1916 January 1918 Extant in 1920
Vydra Amurskiy Sudostroitelnyy Zavod, Nikolaev-na-Amure March 1915 April 1916 January 1918 Extant in 1920
Verp Amurskiy Sudostroitelnyy Zavod, Nikolaev-na-Amure March 1915 April 1916 January 1918 Extant in 1920


See Also

Ships of Far Eastern Imperial Navy 1920