The eight
Fidonisy-class destroyers were ordered on 17 March 1915 at a cost of 2.2 million
rubles each. All of the ships received names in honor of the victories of
Admiral Fyodor Ushakov. Among these was
Tserigo, an alternate name (from Italian
Cerigo) for the island of
Kythira, commemorating Ushakov's victory there during his 1798–1799
campaign in the
Ionian Islands. After being added to the
Black Sea Fleet ship list on 2 July 1915,
Tserigo was
laid down in the
Russud Shipyard in
Nikolayev later that year and
launched on 27 March 1917. Construction halted after the
Russian Revolution and on 17 March 1918 the shipyard was captured by German troops, followed by the
Ukrainian People's Army and the
White Armed Forces of South Russia. When a White commission examined her, they deemed her 93% complete, as piping, armament, and torpedo tubes had not yet been installed. In January 1920, as the
Red Army approached Nikolayev, the unfinished destroyer was towed to
Odessa and then to
Sevastopol. Its armament was never installed nor did it enter service. On 14 November she was towed from Crimea with
Wrangel's fleet during the White
evacuation of the peninsula. After landing evacuees in
Istanbul, she was again towed to
Bizerte,
Tunisia, where she was interned by the French on 29 December.
Tserigo rusted in Bizerte until 1934, when she was scrapped in place by a French company. ==References==