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Tashkent 1939

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Ташкент [Tashkent]		215	OTO, Livorno, Italy	1.1937	28.11.1937	10.1939	sunk 2.7.1942

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2893
Displacement full, t	3200
Length, m	139.8
Breadth, m	13.7
Draught, m	3.70
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 geared steam turbines sets, 2 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	110000
Max speed, kts	39
Fuel, t	oil 1072
Endurance, nm(kts)	5030(20)
Armament	as designed: 3 x 2 - 130/50 B-2LM, 6 x 1 - 45/43 21K, 6 x 1 - 12.7/79, 3 x 3 - 533 TT, 2 DCR (25), 80 mines as completed: 3 x 1 - 130/50 B-13, 6 x 1 - 45/43 21K, 6 x 1 - 12.7/79, 3 x 3 - 533 TT, 2 DCR (25), 80 mines
Electronic equipment	hydrophone
Complement	250

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Project history

Negotiations with Italian shipbuilders about building of destroyer leader for the USSR have begun in 1935 and have come to the end with signing 9.9.1935 of contract with OTO. The requirements provided considerable improvement of general performances in comparison with Leningrad: speed not less than 42.5kts, endurance not less of 5000(20)nm, armament consisted from 3 twin 130mm turret mounts, 6 45mm AA guns and 3 triple 533mm TTs. The armament should be fitted after arrival of ship to the USSR. 3.2.1936 Italian party presented the project which has received the index 20I. The decision on building of 3 ships in the USSR was simultaneously accepted, but because of differences in technologies it was later refused. 18.4.1939 Tashkent was accepted by crew and 6.5.1939 arrived to Odessa.     Ship had an hull with forecastle with appreciable deck sheer to stem and a cruiser-type stern. Prominent features of the leader were completely covered bow streamlined superstructure smoothly transferring to fore funnel, and covered storm corridor, allowing to be transferred on all ship length without an exit to an upper deck. Extremely powerful machinery placed en echelon. On trials Tashkent reached 43.53kts at 3422t and 130000hp.     Under the project the armament consisted from 3 twin 130mm/50 B-2LM turret mounts, but because of a protraction of availability of the latter, Tashkent at commission received temporary armament: 3 single 130mm/50 B-13 guns. Originally designed guns were installed in February, 1941.

Modernizations 2.1941 - 3 x 1 - 130/50 B-13, 6 x 1 - 45/43; + 3 x 2 - 130/50 B-2LM, 6 x 1 - 37/63 70K (as designed)

1941: - 3 x 1 - 130/50 B-13, 6 x 1 - 45/43; + 3 x 2 - 130/50 B-2LM, 6 x 1 - 37/63 70K (as designed)

8/1941: + 1 x 2 - 76/52 39K

Naval service

27.6.1942 en route from Sevastopol to Novorossiysk Tashkent was hard damaged by German aircraft and 2.7.1942 sunk by German aircraft at Novorossiysk. By summer of 1944 she was salvaged and broken up in 1946-1948.