This article is about the World War II-era Soviet destroyer. For the Soviet frigate built in the 1970s and involved in a mutiny, see Soviet frigate Storozhevoy.
An unidentified Storozhevoy-class destroyer in the Black Sea
4 × single 12.7 mm (0.50 in) DK or DShK machine guns
2 × triple 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes
58–96 mines
30 depth charges
Storozhevoy (Russian: Сторожевой, lit. 'Protective') was the lead ship of her class (officially known as Project 7U) of 18 destroyers built for the Soviet Navy during the late 1930s. Although she began construction as a Project 7 Gnevny-class destroyer, Storozhevoy was completed in 1940 to the modified Project 7U design.
Serving with the Baltic Fleet, her bow was blown off by a German torpedo a few days after the start of the German invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) in June 1941. Although her crew suffered heavy losses, the aft part of the ship remained afloat and was towed to Soviet naval bases, ultimately being repaired during the Siege of Leningrad by the fitting of a bow from an unfinished Project 30 destroyer from late 1942 to early 1943. Returning to service in September of the latter year, Storozhevoy bombarded Axis positions during the final months of the siege. Postwar, she continued to serve in the Baltic and was briefly converted to a training ship before being scrapped in the late 1950s.
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