Destroyer Novik 1913

[Brian James]

Russian Destroyer Novik pictured departing Helsinki in 1918. Built at Putilovsky Plant Shipyard, St Petersburg and commissioned in 1913 where she served with the Baltic Fleet during World War I. She joined the Bolsheviks in November 1917 and was renamed Yakov Sverdlov in 1923. She was a Training Ship when Operation Barbarossa began, but was recalled to active duty the following day. She struck a mine on August 28th 1941 and sank while escorting an evacuation convoy during the Soviet evacuation of Tallinn.