Destroyer ‘Zvonkyj’

Shipyard: Mykolaiv ‘Naval’. Laid Down: 1st January 1904. Launched: November 1904. Commissioned: August 1907.

Participated in operations from 1914 to 1917. In the summer of 1917 a Ukrainian organisation existed on this ship. In December 1917, whilst in Odesa, the ship raised the Ukrainian flag. Seamen from the ‘Zvonkyj’ ‘Pamiat Merkuria’ and ‘Zavednyj’ greeted the 8th Session of the Central Rada. In February 1918 the ship came under the control of the Bolsheviks. On the 29th April 1918 the ship raised, again, the Ukrainian flag in Sevastopol.

Destroyer ‘Zvonkyj’, 1917

Displacement: 445 tonnes. Length: 64 metres. Beam: 6.4 metres. Hull: 2.54 metres.

Propulsion: 2 vertical steam engines of 5,642 horsepower.

Max Speed: 25.4 knots. Complement: 4 officers and 68 seamen.

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