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Destroyer built 1941 at Nikolayev. 1,686 tons L371' x 33' x 13'6". Steam turbines 55,000 shp 2 screws 36knts. Compl 240. Russian Skoryi class improved development of the Italian Gordi type. Black Sea fleet. SG4212

(THE NAME IS INCORRECT GIVEN ON THE FIRST ENTRY.)

Built as a destroyer as one of Project 7-U by 61 Kommunara yard at Nikolaev North, Ukraine for the Soviet Navy.
15 October 1936 laid down.
26 August 1639 launched as the SOOBRAZITELNYY (shrewd). (name also given as SOOBRAZITELNYI.)
Displacement 1,900 standard, 2,529 full load. Dim. 112.5 x 10.2 x 5.01m. (draught).
Powered by Parsons steam turbines 54,000 hp, twin shafts, speed 36 knots.
Range by a speed of 20 knots 1.380 mile.
Armament 4 – 130mm guns, 1 – 76.2mm AA, 7 – 37mm AA and 8 – 12.7mm MG, 3 x 2 – 533mm torpedo tubes, 58-96 mines and 30 depth charges.
Crew 271.
07 June 1941 Commissioned, based at Sevastopol Black Sea.

She was a unit of the 3rd Destroyer Squadron based at Sevastopol.
25-26 June 1941 took part in the raid on Constanta, Rumania after the raid she escorted the damaged KHARKIV to Sevastopol. From August used in the defence of Odessa, escorting transports, carrying supplies and people give supporting fire to the defending forces.
29 -31 December was she at the Battle of Kerch Peninsula and on 31 December carried out fire support for the troops landing on the beach, fired 122 shells.
Early January 1942 gives fire support to troops in the area of Feodosia and took part in the amphibious operations in the Sudak area.
From 27 February 1942 till 1 March supported troops at the Crimean front.
7 March did run in a severe storm in which she was flooded by about 300 tons of water, severe damaged she arrived in Sevastopol. The town was attacked by enemy bombers and she had to leave and sailed to the Caucasus.
End April and in May did give fire support to the Russian troops who defended Sevastopol then she did give fire support to the troops in Feodosia.
27 June assisted the destroyer TASHKENT when she was approaching Novorossiysk and took on board from the TASSHKENT the 1975 evacuated passengers from the besieged town of Sevastopol.
At that time the SOOBRAZITELNYY was underway to Sevastopol loaded with relief cargo and munition which was mostly loaded on deck, with all the passengers coming on board her stability got very bad and when she moored in Novorossiysk and the passengers rushed to one side and climbed over the railing on to the quay the destroyer fell on the dock with her port side but likely did not capsize.
02 July 1942 Novorossiysk was attacked by enemy airplanes, she avoided direct hits but was damaged by bombs which exploded nearby, special a 500 kg bomb which exploded on the railway track and covered her deck with a metre of earth and rubble and some railway rails were imbedded in her hull. After the attack the destroyer sailed to Tuapse.
The rest of 1942 took part in attacks on enemy positions in the Black Sea.
From 01 February 1943 as a unit of the destroyer squadron she shelled German positions in the area of Novorossiysk and supported Russian landing troops.
Early August 1943 under repair till the end of the hostilities. During the war she made 218 voyages, sailed 63,785 miles, transported 150,000 ton of cargo, transported 14,230 troops. She made 56 attacks on enemy positions and repelled or fired on about 100 airplanes.
After the war she was overhauled, rebuilt and modernized from 19 December 1945 till 25 August 1947 as a rescue vessel.
20 March 1956 renamed in KFOR-11 and on 12 February 1957 in the SS-16.
27 March 1960 she was preserved and put in reserve.
14 September 1963 renamed CL-3.
19 March 1966 stricken from the navy list and she was scrapped by the Inkerman Scrapyard in Sevastopol, Ukraine.

Russia 1973 10k sg4212, scott
Source: Internet.