Rekordny was renamedAnshan in Chinese service and now preserved at the Naval Museum of China inQingdao
History
Soviet Union
Name	Rekordny
Ordered	2nd Five-Year Plan
Builder	Shipyard No. 198 (Andre Marti (South)),Nikolayev Shipyard No. 202 (Dalzavod),Vladivostok
Laid down	25 September 1936 July 1937
Launched	6 April 1939
Completed	9 January 1941
Fate	Transferred to thePeople's Liberation Army Navy, 6 July 1955
People's Republic of China
Name	Anshan (Chinese:鞍山舰;pinyin:Ānshān Jiàn)
Namesake	Anshan City,Liaoning Province
Acquired	6 July 1955
Reclassified	As a missile destroyer, 1974
Stricken	1986
Fate	Becamemuseum ship, 24 April 1992
General characteristics (Gnevny as completed, 1938)
Class & type	Gnevny-classdestroyer
Displacement	1,612 t (1,587long tons) (standard)
Length	112.8 m (370 ft 1 in) (o/a)
Beam	10.2 m (33 ft 6 in)
Draft	4.8 m (15 ft 9 in)
Installed power	3water-tube boilers 48,000 shp (36,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 gearedsteam turbines
Speed	38knots (70 km/h; 44 mph)
Range	2,720 nmi (5,040 km; 3,130 mi) at 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph)
Complement	197 (236 wartime)
Sensors & processing systems	Marshydrophone
Armament	4 × single130 mm (5.1 in) guns 2 × single76.2 mm (3 in)AA guns 2 × single45 mm (1.8 in) AA guns 2 × single12.7 mm (0.50 in)AA machineguns 2 × triple 533 mm (21 in)torpedo tubes 60–96mines 2 ×depth charge racks, 25 depth charges

Rekordny was one of 29Gnevny-classdestroyers (officially known asProject 7) built for theSoviet Navy during the late 1930s. Completed in 1941, she was assigned to thePacific Fleet. In 1954,Rekordny was sold to China and commissioned into thePeople's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) the following year as theAnshan (Chinese:鞍山舰;pinyin:Ānshān Jiàn). She wasdecommissioned in April 1992 and anchored at the Naval Museum atQingdao.

Having decided to build the large and expensive 40-knot (74 km/h; 46 mph)Leningrad-classdestroyer leaders, the Soviet Navy sought Italian assistance in designing smaller and cheaper destroyers. They licensed the plans for theFolgore class and, in modifying it for their purposes, overloaded a design that was already somewhat marginallystable.^[1]

TheGnevnys had anoverall length of 112.8 meters (370 ft 1 in), abeam of 10.2 meters (33 ft 6 in), and adraft of 4.8 meters (15 ft 9 in) atdeep load. The ships were significantly overweight, almost 200metric tons (197long tons) heavier than designed, displacing 1,612 metric tons (1,587 long tons) atstandard load and 2,039 metric tons (2,007 long tons) at deep load. Their crew numbered 197 officers and sailors in peacetime and 236 in wartime.^[2] The ships had a pair of gearedsteam turbines, each driving one propeller, rated to produce 48,000shaft horsepower (36,000 kW) using steam from threewater-tube boilers which was intended to give them a maximum speed of 37 knots (69 km/h; 43 mph).^[3] The designers had been conservative in rating the turbines and many, but not all, of the ships handily exceeded their designed speed during theirsea trials. Others fell considerably short of it, although specific figures for most individual ships have not survived. Variations infuel oil capacity meant that the range of theGnevnys varied between 1,670 to 3,145nautical miles (3,093 to 5,825 km; 1,922 to 3,619 mi) at 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph).^[4]

As built, theGnevny-class ships mounted four130-millimeter (5.1 in) B-13 guns in two pairs ofsuperfiring single mounts fore and aft of thesuperstructure.Anti-aircraft defense was provided by a pair of76.2-millimeter (3 in) 34-KAA guns in single mounts and a pair of45-millimeter (1.8 in) 21-K AA guns^[5] as well as two 12.7-millimeter (0.50 in)DK or DShKmachine guns. They carried six 533 mm (21.0 in)torpedo tubes in two rotating triple mounts; each tube was provided with a reload. The ships could also carry a maximum of either 60 or 95mines and 25depth charges. They were fitted with a set of Marshydrophones foranti-submarine work, although they were useless at speeds over 3 knots (5.6 km/h; 3.5 mph).^[6] The ships were equipped with two K-1paravanes intended to destroy mines and a pair of depth-charge throwers.^[7]

Major components for the ship that becameRekordny werelaid down atShipyard No. 198 (Andre Marti South) inNikolayev on 25 September 1936 asyard number 327 and were then railed toVladivostok for completion atShipyard No. 202 (Dalzavod) where the ship was laid down again in July 1937. She waslaunched on 6 April 1939 andcommissioned on 9 January 1941.^[8]

In 1955Rekordny, was bought by thePeople's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) and renamedAnshan (Chinese:鞍山舰;pinyin:Ānshān Jiàn). The ship was transferred to the People's Liberation Army Navy from the USSR in October 1954 along with three other formerGnevny-classdestroyers of the Soviet Navy as part of a larger transfer deal which also saw the transfer ofsubmarines,minesweepers andtorpedo boats.^[9][10]

The ship wascommissioned into the Chinese navy in 1955 and was named after the industrial city ofAnshan in the modern province ofLiaoning. She was assigned thepennant number 101. During the 38 years she served the PLAN, she was visited by nine foreign dignitaries as well as two Chinese leaders:Zhou Enlai andDeng Xiaoping

She wasdecommissioned in April 1992 and anchored at the Naval Museum atQingdao.

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