ET 1913 g Dalzavod Kinzhal class destroyer

ET 1913 g Dalzavod Kinzhal class Destroyer
Class overview
Name	ET 1913 g Dalzavod Kinzhal 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	1320 tons standard 1560 tons full load
Length	100.4 metres (329 ft)
Beam	9.3 metres (31 ft)
Draught	3.2 metres (10 ft)
Propulsion	2 shafts, 2 Brown Boveri Steam turbines
Power	5 watertube boilers 35,000 ihp (26,000 kW)
Speed	33.2 kts
Range	2600 nm at 21 kts
Complement	125
Armament	2 × 120mm/45 KO 1913 g gun 5 × 2 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.

Dalzavod had some technical assistance from the British Thornycroft company and differenced from the other ET 1913 g designs by having aditional twin torpedo launcher. These were the slowest ones of the whole lot, making only 33.2 tops (Pika). Like with the other classes, members of the Dalzavod group also had aditional 120mm guns in place of the torpedo launchers and the twin tubes were replaced with tripple tubes.

Ships in class

Name	Builder	Laid down	Launch Date	Entered Service	Fate
Kinzhal	Dalzavov, Vladivostok	May 1913	June 1914	October 1915	Extant in 1920
Kope	Dalzavov, Vladivostok	May 1913	June 1914	October 1915	Extant in 1920
Palash	Dalzavov, Vladivostok	May 1913	July 1914	October 1915	Extant in 1920
Pika	Dalzavov, Vladivostok	April 1914	May 1915	September 1916	Extant in 1920
Pistolet	Dalzavov, Vladivostok	April 1914	May 1915	September 1916	Extant in 1920
Pulya	Dalzavov, Vladivostok	April 1914	May 1915	October 1916	Extant in 1920
Rapira	Dalzavov, Vladivostok	June 1915	May 1916	August 1917	Extant in 1920
Sabliya	Dalzavov, Vladivostok	June 1915	May 1916	August 1917	Extant in 1920
Shashka	Dalzavov, Vladivostok	June 1915	May 1916	August 1917	Extant in 1920

See Also

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