ET 1913 g Amurskiy Sudostroitelnyy Zavod Bizon class destroyer

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, People's Revolutionary Navy
Class before	ET 1910 g Oniks class destroyer
Planned	9
Built	9
Destroyed	6
Scrapped	3
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	2 × 120mm/45 KO 1913 g gun (3 in 1920) 4 × 2 (3x3 in 1920) tubes for 18-inch (450 mm) torpedoes

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 Permskoye-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. All units were modernized in 1935-38 with improved ASW and AA weaponry.

Ships in class

Name	Builder	Laid down	Launch Date	Entered Service	Fate
Bizon	Amurskiy Sudostroitelnyy Zavod, Permskoye-na-Amure	July 1913	August 1914	February 1916	Sunk in 1942
Sobol	Amurskiy Sudostroitelnyy Zavod, Permskoye-na-Amure	July 1913	August 1914	February 1916	BU in 1946
Barshuk	Amurskiy Sudostroitelnyy Zavod, Permskoye-na-Amure	July 1913	August 1914	March 1916	BU in 1946
Gornostay	Amurskiy Sudostroitelnyy Zavod, Permskoye-na-Amure	June 1914	August 1915	March 1917	Sunk in 1941
Khorek	Amurskiy Sudostroitelnyy Zavod, Permskoye-na-Amure	June 1914	August 1915	March 1917	Sunk in 1942
Kunitsa	Amurskiy Sudostroitelnyy Zavod, Permskoye-na-Amure	June 1914	August 1915	March 1917	Sunk in 1942
Laska	Amurskiy Sudostroitelnyy Zavod, Permskoye-na-Amure	March 1915	April 1916	January 1918	Sunk in 1942
Vydra	Amurskiy Sudostroitelnyy Zavod, Permskoye-na-Amure	March 1915	April 1916	January 1918	Sunk in 1944
Vepr	Amurskiy Sudostroitelnyy Zavod, Permskoye-na-Amure	March 1915	April 1916	January 1918	BU in 1946

See Also

Ships of Far Eastern Imperial Navy 1920
Ships of Peoples Revolutionary Navy 1920-1945