Destroyer ‘Zhutkyj’

Shipyard: Mykolaiv . Laid Down: 1902. Launched: 1904. Commissioned: 1905.

This ship played an active role in WWI, with an active Ukrainian organization on-board. On the 15th April 1917 the crew of the ship raised 20 roubles and 89 kopecks to purchase a Ukrainian flag. By the winter of 1917-18 this ship was in the hands of the Bolsheviks. She was laid in dock from March 1918. On the 29th April 1918 this naval ship, along with others in Sevastopol, raised the Ukrainian flag.

Destroyer ‘Zhutkyj’, 1917

Displacement: 420 tonnes. Length: 64 metres. Beam: 6.4 metres. Hull: 2.74 metres.

Propulsion: 2 steam engines with triple expansion of 5,500 horsepower.

Max Speed: 24.3 knots. Complement: 4 officers and 68 seamen.

Armaments. 2 guns – 75/50 mm, 4 machine guns, 2 torpedo tubes 457 mm.