The Leytenant Illin-class destroyers were built for the Baltic Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy.
Design and description The Leytenant Ilin-class ships were designed as an improved version of the .Budzbon, p. 310 The ships normally displaced and at full load. They measured long overall with a beam of , and a draft of . The Leytenant Ilins were propelled by two Brown-Boveri-Parsons steam turbines, each driving one propeller using steam from four Normand-Vulkan boilers at a working pressure of . The turbines were designed to produce a total of for an intended maximum speed of .Verstyuk & Gordeyev, p. 43 During their sea trials, they only reached from . The ships carried between of fuel oil which gave them a range of at . Their crew numbered 150.Apalkov, p. 46
The Leytenant Ilin-class ships were originally intended to have an armament of two 60-caliber 102 mm (four in) Pattern 1911 Obukhov guns, one gun each on the forecastle and stern, and a dozen torpedo tubes in six double mounts. The Naval General Staff changed this to four triple mounts once they became available in 1914; based on a battle between the destroyer and two German destroyers in August 1915, they decided to exchange the rearmost torpedo mount for two more 102 mm guns on the stern while the ships were still under construction. All of these guns were on the centerline and interfered with each other's movements.Breyer, p. 60 Anti-aircraft defense was provided by a anti-aircraft (AA) gun in a single mount amidships. The Leytenant Ilins were completed with one triple torpedo mount between the forward funnels and two mounts aft of the rear funnel. The ships could carry 80 M1912 naval mines. They were also fitted with a Barr and Stroud rangefinder and two searchlights.
Ships Built at the Putilov yard, St Petersburg
+ Construction dataShip (original name in Russian service)Name(s) in Soviet or foreign services (ships were renamed)Laid downLaunchedCompletedFateKapitan BelliKarl Libknekht15 July 1913 10 October 19153 August 1928 Transferred to the Soviet Northern Fleet. Broken up 1950s Kapitan IzylmetevLenin18 June 1913 21 October 191410 July 1916 Scuttled while under repair, 24 June 1941 at Liepāja, Latvia Kapitan KernRykov renamed Valerian Kuybyshev21 November 1913 10 October 191515 October 1927 Transferred to the Soviet Northern Fleet. Broken up 1950s Kapitan Konon-ZotovNA21 November 191310 October 1915NABroken up incomplete, 1923 Kapitan Kroun15 November 191423 July 1916 Kapitan I ranga Miklucha MaklaiSpartak (1917)renamed Estonian renamed Peruvian Almirante Villar23 October 191414 August 191512 December 1917 Captured by the British in 1918, given to the Estonian Navy and sold by the Estonians to Peru in 1933. Scrapped in 1954 Leytenant DubasovNA15 July 191327 August 1916NABroken up incomplete, 1923Leytenant IlinGaribaldirenamed Trotskyrenamed Voykov18 June 191315 November 191430 November 1916transferred to the Soviet Pacific Fleet. Broken up 1950s
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