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Besposhchadny was one of 29 Gnevny-class
destroyers (officially
known as
Project 7)
built for the
Soviet Navy
during the late 1930s.
Completed in 1939...
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Soldati Destroyer 1,850 1
April 1939 sunk by
aircraft 7
January 1943
Besposhchadny Soviet Navy
Gnevny Destroyer 1,587 2
October 1939 sunk 6
October 1943...
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Sarwadjala Bystry (Rapid)
Burny (Turbulent) →transferred to
Egypt as Suez
Besposhchadny (Merciless)
Bezzhalostny (Ruthless) →transferred to
Indonesia as KRI...
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flotilla in the
fleet comprising the
Leningrad class destroyers Kharkov,
Besposhchadny and
Sposobny were
caught and sunk by dive-bombing.
After the disaster...
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three ships and
Sposobny took
Besposhchadny under tow as well. The next
attack sank both
Kharkov and
Besposhchadny.
Sposobny was sunk by the fourth...
- 'Spry / Bold'
Marti Yard,
Nikolaev 29 Oct 1936 1 May 1939 s****ped 1958
Besposhchadny – Russian: Беспощадный, lit. 'Merciless'
Marti Yard,
Nikolaev 1937 Sept...
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Bodry 1935 1936
Gnevnyy Destroyer Boyky 1935 1936
Bystry 1936 1936
Besposhchadny 1936 1936
Voroshilov 1936 1939
Kirov (Project 26)
Light cruiser Molotov...
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repairs under her own power. At the same time,
destroyers Boyky and
Besposhchadny claimed to have
intercepted and destro**** a
small convoy with torpedoes...
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destroyer leader Kharkov,
Boyky and her
sister ships Bodry,
Bezuprechny and
Besposhchadny made an
unsuccessful attempt to
interdict Axis
shipping near Fidonisi...
- 23 June. The
following day,
Kharkov and the
destroyers Smyshleny and
Besposhchadny of the 3rd
Destroyer Division sailed to the
Danube estuary to support...