Russian destroyer Pospeshny (1914)

History
Russian Empire
Name	Pospeshny
Builder	Nevsky Shipyard, Saint Petersburg (built) Vaddon, Kherson (assembled)
Laid down	5 October 1913
Launched	22 March 1914
Completed	16 September 1915
Fate	Captured by German Empire, 1 May 1918
German Empire
Acquired	1 May 1918
Fate	Turned over to the United Kingdom, November 1918
United Kingdom
Acquired	November 1918
Fate	Turned over to Wrangel's fleet, September 1919
White Army
Operator	Wrangel's Fleet
Acquired	September 1919
Out of service	29 December 1920
Fate	Scrapped, early 1930s
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Derzky-class destroyer
Displacement	1,320 t (1,300 long tons)
Length	98 m (321 ft 6 in)
Beam	9.3 m (30 ft 6 in)
Draught	3.2 m (10 ft 6 in) (deep load)
Installed power	5 Vulkan-Thornycroft boilers 25,500 shp (19,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts, 2 steam turbines
Speed	32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Range	1,800 nmi (3,300 km; 2,100 mi) at 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Complement	125
Armament	3 × single 102 mm (4 in) guns 1 × single 37 mm (1.5 in) AA gun 5 × twin 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes 80 mines

Pospeshny (Russian: Поспешный) was a Derzky-class destroyer built for the Imperial Russian Navy during World War I. Completed in 1915, she served with the Black Sea Fleet.

Bibliography

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