Soviet destroyer Storozhevoy

	An unidentified Storozhevoy-class destroyer in the Black Sea
History
Soviet Union
Name	Storozhevoy (Сторожевой (Protective))
Ordered	2nd Five-Year Plan
Builder	Shipyard No. 190 (Zhdanov), Leningrad
Yard number	517
Laid down	January 1938
Launched	2 October 1938
Completed	6 October 1940
Fate	Scrapped, 1958–1959
General characteristics
Class & type	Storozhevoy-class destroyer
Displacement	1,727 t (1,700 long tons) (standard); 2,279 t (2,243 long tons) (full load);
Length	112.5 m (369 ft 1 in) (o/a)
Beam	10.2 m (33 ft 6 in)
Draft	3.98 m (13 ft 1 in)
Installed power	4 water-tube boilers; 54,000 shp (40,000 kW) (trials);
Propulsion	2 shafts, 2 steam turbine sets
Speed	40.3 knots (74.6 km/h; 46.4 mph) (trials)
Endurance	2,700 nmi (5,000 km; 3,100 mi) at 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph)
Complement	207 (271 wartime)
Sensors &; processing systems	Mars hydrophones
Armament	4 × single 130 mm (5.1 in) guns; 2 × single 76.2 mm (3 in) AA guns; 3 × single 45 mm (1.8 in) AA guns; 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 from late 1942 to early 1943 during the Siege of Leningrad by the fitting of a bow from an unfinished Project 30 destroyer. Returning to service in September 1943, 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.