:Soviet destroyer Gnevny (1958)

{{short description|Kanin-class destroyer}}

{{other ships|Soviet destroyer Gnevny (1936)}}

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| Ship country = Soviet Union

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| Ship name = *Gnevny

  • (Гневный)

| Ship namesake = Wrathful in Russian

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| Ship builder = North Nikolayev Shipyard

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| Ship laid down = 17 December 1957

| Ship launched = 30 November 1958

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| Ship decommissioned = 8 April 1988

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| Ship class = {{sclass2|Kanin|destroyer}}

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  • {{convert|4192|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} full load
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  • {{convert|3700|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} standard
  • {{convert|4500|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} full load

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|Ship complement=320

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  • 2 × SS-N-1 launchers (12 Missiles)
  • 4 × quad {{convert|57|mm|in|1|abbr=on}} guns
  • 2 × triple {{convert|533|mm|in|0|abbr=on}} Torpedo tubes
  • 2 × RBU-2500 anti submarine rocket launchers
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  • 1 × twin SA-N-1 SAM launcher (32 Missiles)
  • 2 × quad {{convert|57|mm|in|1|abbr=on}} guns
  • 2 × twin {{convert|30|mm|in|1|abbr=on}} AK-230 guns
  • 10 × {{convert|533|mm|in|0|abbr=on}} torpedo tubes
  • 3 × RBU-6000 anti submarine rocket launchers

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Gnevny was the fifth ship of the {{sclass2|Kanin|destroyer}} of the Soviet Navy.{{Cite web|title=Destroyers - Project 57bis|url=http://russianships.info/eng/warships/project_57bis.htm|access-date=2021-08-11|website=russianships.info}}

Construction and career

The ship was built at North Nikolayev Shipyard in Mykolaiv and was launched on 30 November 1958 and commissioned into the Black Sea Fleet on 10 January 1960.{{Cite web|last=R.|first=Kazachkov|date=17 July 2009|title=Catalog of slipway (serial) numbers of ships and vessels of the Navy of the USSR and Russia|url=http://navycollection.narod.ru/fleets/Russia/STN_by_R_Kazachkov/STN190.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 August 2014|website=Naval collection|access-date=11 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140821161951/http://navycollection.narod.ru/fleets/Russia/STN_by_R_Kazachkov/STN190.html}}

In 1961, the ship made an ultra-long-distance transition from the Black Sea around Europe, and then - via the Northern Sea Route to the base of the Pacific Fleet.{{Cite web|date=2012-12-21|title=Сайт "АТРИНА" • Эскадренные миноносцы пр.57-бис типа "Гневный", Krupn…|url=http://www.atrinaflot.narod.ru/2_mainclassships/05_em_57/0_57bis.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121221133231/http://www.atrinaflot.narod.ru/2_mainclassships/05_em_57/0_57bis.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-12-21|access-date=2021-08-11|website=archive.is}}

On May 19, 1966, the ship like all ships of Project 57-bis, was reclassified into the Large Missile Ship (BRK).{{Cite book|last=S.S.|first=Berezhnoy|title=Крейсера и миноносцы: Справочник|publisher=М.: Военное издательство|year=2002|isbn=5-203-01780-8|pages=472}}

She twice visited Massawa in Ethiopia (January 1967 and 1969) and Casablanca in Morocco (October 1968 and April 1978), as well as once Aden in South Yemen (January 1969), Nairobi in Mauritius (April 1969), Bombay in India (November 1975), Vancouver in Canada (August 1976).

While in the war zone, she performed combat missions to provide assistance to the armed forces of Egypt (June 1967 and from April to December 1968), Syria (June 1967).

On March 13, 1969, she was transferred to the Pacific Fleet (Pacific Fleet). In the period from 1972 to 1973, it was modernized according to the project 57-A in Vladivostok at the Dalzavod shipyard. On March 7, 1974, the ship was reclassified as a Large anti-submarine ship (BOD).

On April 8, 1988, the ship was decommissioned, disarmed and expelled from the Navy, in connection with the transfer to the OFI for dismantling and sale, and on July 17 of the same year her crew was disbanded.

Gallery

File:Gnevnyy1983.jpg|Gnevny in 1983

File:Gnevnyy&F-15(DF-ST-84-06892).jpg

File:Proekt1559V&Gnevnyy1983.jpg

Citations

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References

  • {{cite book|editor-last1=Gardiner|editor-first1=Robert|title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995|last2=Chumbley|first2=Stephen|last1=Budzbon|first1=Przemysław|date=1995|publisher=Naval Institute Press|isbn=1-55750-132-7|location=Annapolis, MD|oclc=34267261}}

= In Russian =

  • {{cite book|author=Соколов А. Н.|url=|title=Расходный материал флота. Миноносцы СССР и России|date=2007|publisher=Военная книга|isbn=978-5-902863-13-7|edition=|series=|volume=|location=М.|page=|pages=|at=|chapter=|format=|ref=Соколов А. Н.|orig-year=|chapter-url=|agency=}}