The Deyatelny class () consisted of eight destroyers built for the Imperial Russian Navy during the first decade of the 20th century. They served in the Baltic Fleet and participated in the First World War.
Design and description The Deyatelny-class ships displaced at normal load. They measured long overall with a beam of , and a draft of . The ships were propelled by two vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one propeller shaft using steam from four Normand boilers that had a working pressure of . The engines were designed to produce a total of for an intended maximum speed of . The ships normally carried of coal, but could carry a maximum of . This gave them a range of at . Their crew numbered 67 officers and men.Apalkov, pp. 70–71
The main armament of the Deyatelny class consisted of two 50-caliber guns, one gun on the roof of the forward conning tower and the other at the stern. They were also armed with six machine guns. The ships were equipped with two torpedo tubes in single-tube rotating mounts. These were located fore and aft of the rear searchlight platform. They could carry 18 mines.Afonin, pp. 60–61
Ships + Construction dataNameLaid downBerezhnoy, pp. 260–264LaunchedEntered ServiceFateBreyer, p. 5019057 July 190722 November 1907Scrapped, 23 August 1922Scrapped, 21 November 19258 May 19071 April 19082 April 19054 September 1906190523 August 190522 November 190711 August 190615 December 190720 December 1906Ran aground and wrecked, 21 August 1917
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