Russian destroyer Sibirsky Strelok

History
Russian Empire
Name	Sibirsky Strelok
Builder	Sandvikens Skeppsdoka & Mekaniska Verstad, Helsingfors, Grand Duchy of Finland
Laid down	March 1905
Launched	1 August 1906
Completed	27 September 1907
Fate	Seized by the Bolsheviks, November 1917
Soviet Union
Acquired	November 1917
Renamed	Konstruktor, 10 December 1926; OT-29, 10 July 1956;
Reclassified	As experimental ship, 1925; As escort ship, 3 August 1941; As gunboat, 4 April 1943; As experimental ship, 3 January 1945;
Stricken	1 June 1957
Fate	Sunk by aircraft, 4 November 1941; Salvaged and rebuilt;
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Okhotnik-class destroyer
Displacement	740 t (730 long tons)
Length	75.18 m (246 ft 8 in)
Beam	8.2 m (26 ft 11 in)
Draft	3.35 m (11 ft) (deep load)
Installed power	4 Normand boilers; 7,300 ihp (5,444 kW);
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed	25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph)
Range	2,200–2,400 nmi (4,100–4,400 km; 2,500–2,800 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	95
Armament	2 × single 75 mm (3 in) gun; 6 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) guns; 3 × single 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes; 42 mines;

Sibirsky Strelok (Russian: Сибирский стрелок) was a Okhotnik-class destroyer built for the Imperial Russian Navy during the first decade of the 20th century. Completed in 1907, she served in the Baltic Fleet and participated in the First World War. The ship was seized by the Bolsheviks in 1917 during the October Revolution and was placed in reserve in early 1918. Sibirsky Strelok was transferred to the Special Technical Bureau (Ostekhbiuro) in 1925 as an experimental ship and was renamed Konstruktor (Russian: Конструктор) the following year. The Soviet Navy reassumed control of the ship in 1939, although her role remained the same.

Shortly after the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union in mid-1941, Konstruktor was converted into an escort ship and transferred to Lake Ladoga. She was sunk by Finnish aircraft later that year, but was salvaged and converted into a gunboat by 1943. The ship reverted to her experimental role in 1945. Konstructor was struck in 1957.

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