Izyaslav-class destroyer

The Izyaslav class (Russian: Изяслав) were a class of destroyers built for the Baltic Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy. They were modified versions of the Orfey class built in Russia with the assistance of the French company Augustin Normand. These ships fought in World War I, the Russian Civil War, the Estonian War of Independence, and World War II.

Karl Marx, the former Izyaslav
Class overview
Name	Izyaslav class
Builders	Bocker and Lange, Reval, Estonia
Operators	Imperial Russian Navy  Soviet Navy  Estonian Navy  Peruvian Navy
Preceded by	Orfey class
In commission	1916–1954
Planned	5
Completed	3
Cancelled	2
Lost	2
Scrapped	1
General characteristics
Type	Destroyer
Displacement	1,350 long tons (1,370 t)
Length	99.1 m (325 ft 2 in)
Beam	9.4 m (30 ft 10 in)
Draught	3.0 m (9 ft 10 in)
Installed power	5 boilers 25,500 shp (19,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 steam turbines
Speed	33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Complement	150
Armament	5 × single 102 mm (4 in) guns 3 × triple 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes 80 mines

Design

The ships were an enlarged version of previous designs with a longer raised forecastle, and Frahm-type anti-rolling tanks. An extra 100-millimetre (4 in) gun was added and the number of torpedo tubes reduced.

Ships

These ships were built by Bocker and Lange in Reval, Estonia. The ships were delayed due to ordering machinery from Switzerland which was embargoed on the outbreak of World War I. New machinery was ordered from Britain.

Construction data

Ship	Launched	Fate
Avtroil - renamed Lennuk - renamed Almirante Guise	13 January 1915	Captured by the British in 1918, given to the Estonian Navy and sold by the Estonians to Peru, in 1933, scrapped, 1954
Izyaslav - renamed Karl Marx	27 June 1915	Sunk, 8 August 1941
Prymyslav - renamed Kalinin	9 August 1915	Sunk, 28 August 1941
Bryachislav	1 October 1915	Evacuated to Petrograd but scrapped incomplete, 1923
Fedor Stratilat	1915	Evacuated to Petrograd but scrapped incomplete, 1923

Avtroil, c. 1913–1919

Kalinin c. 1925-1941

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External links

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