Nezamozhnik was one of eight Fidonisy-class destroyers built for the Imperial Russian Navy during World War I. Originally named Zante, the ship was left unfinished during the Russian Revolution in 1917 and later captured by Ukrainian and White forces. The mostly complete destroyer was towed from her shipyard by retreating White forces and wrecked during a storm in 1920. She was refloated by the Soviets following their victory in the Russian Civil War and completed in 1923. Refitted twice during the interwar period, the destroyer served in the Black Sea during World war II, helping to evacuate Odessa and supply besieged Soviet forces in Sevastopol.
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Nezamozhnik was one of eight Fidonisy-class destroyers built for the Imperial Russian Navy during World War I. Originally named Zante, the ship was left unfinished during the Russian Revolution in 1917 and later captured by Ukrainian and White forces. The mostly complete destroyer was towed from her shipyard by retreating White forces and wrecked during a storm in 1920. She was refloated by the Soviets following their victory in the Russian Civil War and completed in 1923. Refitted twice during the interwar period, the destroyer served in the Black Sea during World war II, helping to evacuate Odessa, supply besieged Soviet forces in Sevastopol, and support several amphibious operations during the Kerch–Feodosia Offensive and the Battle of the Caucasus. The ship saw no combat after October 1943 after three destroyers were sunk by German aircraft in a single action. She received the Order of the Red Banner for her actions during the war. The destroyer was converted into a target ship at the end of the 1940s and sunk during the early 1950s. In mid-1941, she was again modernized with anti-aircraft guns on the forecastle and two 45-millimeter 21-K AA guns on her forecastle. During her 1935–1936 refit, she received four 12. 7-millimeters DShK machine guns the forward and aft bridges, replacing the 7. 62 mm machine guns, in addition to an AM3 rangefinder on her aft bridges.
By 1943, five 37-mm AA guns had been added with one between the funnels and four among the boats, and she was also fitted with 42 depth charges and two Oerlikon paravanes. A pair of depth charge throwers were later added to two of the aft bridge cannons on 1930s, while the other two remained on the forward bridge wings. The destroyers mounted four triple above-water torpedo tube mounts amidships with a pair of reload torpedoes and could carry 80 M1908 naval mines. They were ordered on 30 March 1915 when the Naval Ministry concluded a contract with the Society of Nikolayev Factories and Shipyards for construction at a cost of 2. 2 million rubles each. The ships were to be built in response to a perceived strengthening of the Ottoman Navy and named in honor of Russian Admiral Fyodor Ushakov’s 1798–1799 campaign in the Ionian Islands. One of the destroyers was Zante; the other four were named after the Italian name for Zakynthos, named for the 1798-1799 campaign in the Ionian island and the Zakynth of the Kazynth Islands. The Fidon Daisy-class ships mounted a main armament of four single 102- millimeter Pattern 1911 Obukhov guns, one on the forecastsle and three aft; one of these latter guns was superfiring over the other 2.
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