Tashkent (Tashkent Class)

Laid down	January 1937
Launched	21st November 1937
Completed	N/A
Commissioned	May 1939
Fate	Scrapped: 1943
Builders	Odero Orlando, Livorno Italy
Complement	250
Dimensions
Displacement	2893 tons std 3200 tons max
Dimensions	458' 6" x 45'
Draught	12' 3"
Armament
Main guns	As built: 3 x 130mm (3 x 1) Refitted: 6 x 130mm (3 x 2)
Secondary guns	6 x 45mm (6 x 1)
Torpedo tubes	6 x 21" (2 x 3)
Other weapons	Mines: 80 Guns: 8 x 20mm
Countermeasures	None
Armour	N/A
Aircraft Facilities
Aircraft	None
Flightdeck	None
Hangar	None
Catapults	None
Arrestor system	None
Aviation fuel	None
Electronics Fit
Radar	None
Sonar	N/A
ECM	None
Other	N/A
Machinery
Engines	2 x Yarrow boilers 2 x SR steam turbines
Power output	130000shp
Speed	44kts
Shafts	2
Range	4000NM @ 20kts
Fuel	N/A

During the siege of Sevastopol, Tashkent was used as a transport and made 40 round trips with supplies. On 28th June 1942 she was bombed by German aircraft and arrived at Novorossiysk with 1900 tons of water in her. Efforts to save the ship failed and she sank in shallow water.

The Germans partially scrapped the wreck when they captured Novorossiysk, and the Russians completed the works when they recaptured the port in 1943. All the 130mm turrets were salvaged and 2 turrets were installed in the destroyer Ognyevoi in 1942.

Last altered : 10th July 1999

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