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Soviet destroyer Neuderzhimy

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Neuderzhimy in March 1975
History
Soviet Union
Name
  • Neuderzhimy
  • (Неудержимый)
NamesakeUnrestrainable in Russian
Ordered19 January 1955
BuilderAmur Shipbuilding Plant
Laid down23 February 1957
Launched24 May 1958
Commissioned30 December 1958
Decommissioned10 April 1987
RenamedTCB-567
FateSunk in 1992
General characteristics
Class and typeKildin-class destroyer
Displacement
  • 2,662 long tons (2,705 t) standard
  • 3,230 long tons (3,282 t) full load
Length126.1 m (414 ft)
Beam12.7 m (42 ft)
Draught4.2 m (14 ft)
Installed power72,000 hp (54,000 kW)
Propulsion
  • 2 × shaft geared steam turbines
  • 4 × boilers
Speed38 kn (70 km/h; 44 mph)
Complement273
Sensors and
processing systems
Armament
  • as designed:
    • 1 × SS-N-1 anti shipping missile launcher
      • (8 re-load missiles)
    • 4 × quad 57 mm guns
    • 2 × dual 533 mm torpedo tubes
    • 2 × RBU-2500 w/ 128 RGB-25
    • 2 × RPK-8 Zapad/RBU-6000 12 tubed mortar launchers

Neuderzhimy was the fourth ship of the Kildin-class destroyer of the Soviet Navy.[1]

Construction and career

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The ship was built at Amur Shipbuilding Plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur and was launched on 31 July 1955 and commissioned into the Pacific Fleet on 30 June 1958.[2]

On May 19, 1966, the ship was reclassified into a Large Missile Ship (BRK), on March 3, 1977 - into a Large Anti-Submarine Ship (BOD).

During the events following the incident with the seizure of the USS Pueblo on January 23, 1968, the ship was in the operational squadron. The squadron (under the command of Rear Admiral Nikolai Ivanovich Khovrin as part of the RRC of the Varyag, Admiral Fokin, Uporny, Neuderzhimy, Vyzyvayushchy and Vesky) The task was set to patrol the area in readiness to protect the state interests of the USSR from provocative actions.

On July 23, 1979, she was delivered for overhaul at Dalzavod, Vladivostok, but on December 8, 1985 it was disarmed and reorganized into a training ship (TCB), and on March 14, 1986, she was renamed into TCB- 567.

In 1992, she was sunk in Truda Bay, Russky Island.

References

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  1. ^ "Destroyers - Project 56M". russianships.info. Retrieved 2021-08-12.
  2. ^ R., Kazachkov (17 July 2009). "Catalog of slipway (serial) numbers of ships and vessels of the Navy of the USSR and Russia". Naval collection. Archived from the original on 21 August 2014. Retrieved 12 August 2021.