An item reported that the Russian minister for navy decided that all warships in the future were to used naptha as fuel. This decision was a result of the recently in Germany completed turbine cruiser Nowik which had a maximum speed of 36 knots.(1)
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1. Siegfried Breyer. Enzyklopädie des sowjetischen Kriegsschiffbaus. Oktober revoltution und maritimes Erbe. Destroyer of which the keel was laid down at the Putilov shipyard at St. Petersburg on 19 July 1910, launched on 21 June a year later, commissioned on 22 August 1913 fitted out with two German engines and four coal-fired boilers delivering 65.000 hp and which was clocked on 36,82 knots during trials. In 1923 renamed Yakov Sverdlov and finally lost on 28 August 1941 when she strike a mine.
