Chapayev
099
1950
(Spider Navy SN-3-07)
- Class: Chapayev - 5 light cruisers of 1939
- Displacement: 11,300 tons standard / 15,000 tons full load
- Dimensions: 659'5" x 64'8" x 21'
- Machinery: geared steam turbines, 130,000 SHP; 2 screws = 34 knots
- Armour: Belt 4in, deck 2in, turrets 3in, CT 6in
- Guns: 12-152mm/57 (4x3), 8-100mm/70 (4x2), 28-37mm/67 (14x2)
- Mines: 200
- Torpedoes: 6-533mm (2x3)
- Complement: 840
- Builder: Ordzhonikidze, Leningrad, Russia
- Laid down: 8 Oct 1939
- Launched: 28 Apr 1941
- Completed: 16 May 1950
- Notes: Lead member of the project 68 cruisers, laid down prior to the Nazi invasion, and completed postwar. A large program of 17 ships was planned and 11 ordered, with 7 laid down before the invasion. Two were scrapped on the slipway after having been captured by the Germans at Nikolayev during the war, while 5 were completed by 1949-50.
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