Soviet destroyer Gordy (1937) was commissioned by Gunther to provide a religious poem in the vernacular that could compete with the legends about Theoderic the Great. Gunther of Bamberg Gunther (1025/1030 – 23 July 1065) was a German nobleman and prelate of the Holy Roman Empire. He served as Chancellor of Italy from 1054 until 1057 and as Bishop of Bamberg from 1057 until his death. He was the leader of the Great German Pilgrimage of 1064–65, on which he died. Gunther was a regular at the imperial court, a man of luxurious living and a patron of letters. He revived High German literature with 	Gunther of Bamberg
6275161	Soviet destroyer Gordy (1937) Soviet destroyer Gordy (1937) Gordy () was one of 29 s (officially known as Project 7) built for the Soviet Navy during the late 1930s. Completed in 1938, she was assigned to the Baltic Fleet. The ship was covering a minelaying operation after the start of the German invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) in June 1941 when she entered a German minefield. One of her sister ships had her bow blown off and Gordy" rescued the survivors. The ship provided naval gunfire support for Soviet ground forces over the next several months, although she was badly damaged by a  mine during the evacuation of Tallinn, Estonia, in August. After repairs, "Gordy" was assigned to evacuate Soviet troops from their enclave in Hanko, Finland, in November, but struck several mines en route and sank with heavy loss of life. Design and description. Having decided to build the large and expensive destroyer leaders, the Soviet Navy sought Italian assistance in designing smaller and cheaper destroyers. They licensed the plans for the and, in modifying it for their purposes, overloaded a design that was already somewhat marginally stable. The "Gnevny"s had an overall length of , a beam of , and a draft of  at deep load. The ships were significantly overweight, almost heavier than designed, displacing at standard load and at deep load. Their crew numbered 197 officers and sailors in peacetime and 236 in wartime. The ships had a pair of geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller, rated to produce using steam from three water-tube boilers which was intended to give them a maximum speed of . The designers had been conservative in rating the turbines and many, but not all, of the ships handily exceeded their designed speed during their sea trials. Others fell considerably short of it, although specific  figures for most individual ships have not survived. Variations in fuel oil capacity meant that the range of the "Gnevny"s varied between at . As built, the "Gnevny"-class ships mounted four B-13 guns in two pairs of superfiring single mounts fore and aft of the superstructure. Anti-aircraft defense was provided by a pair of 34-K AA guns in single mounts and a pair of 21-K AA guns as well as two DK or DShK machine guns. They carried six 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 95 mines and 25 depth charges. They were fitted with a set of Mars hydrophones for anti-submarine work, although they were useless at speeds over . The ships were equipped with two K-1 paravanes intended to destroy mines and a pair of depth-charge throwers. Construction and service. Built in Leningrad's Shipyard No. 190 (Zhdanov) as yard number 514, "Gordy" was laid down on 25 June 1936 and launched on 10 June 1937. Completed on 23 December 1938, the ship was assigned to the Baltic Fleet. She served on patrol and escort duty  during the Winter War. On 23 June 1941, a day after Operation Barbarossa began, "Gordy", under the command of "Kapitan 3-go ranga" (Captain 3rd Rank) Yevgeny Yefet, was tasked with covering minelaying operations at the mouth of the Gulf of Finland together with the rest of the 1st Division of the Baltic Fleet's Light Forces Detachment – the light cruiser and her sisters and . They ran into a German minefield northwest of Tahkuna Lighthouse; "Gordy" was slightly damaged by a mine that detonated when it was struck by one of her paravanes, but "Gnevny" had her bow blown off  when she struck another one. "Gordy" took off "Gnevny"s crew after submarine periscopes were reported spotted and unsuccessfully attempted to sink her with gunfire. Later that day, she was lightly damaged when her paravanes triggered the explosion of two mines. The destroyer subsequently fought in the defense of Moonsund and Tallinn, Estonia, as German ground forces advanced northward, as well as laying mines herself. She participated in an unsuccessful attack on a group of German landing craft off the mouth of the Daugava River on 13 July. Together with the light cruiser , the destroyer leaders and , and several other destroyers , "Gordy" fired 253 shells to support the defenders of Tallinn, between 24 and 26 August. While covering the evacuation of Tallinn on 28 August as part of the detachment of main forces led by "Kirov", a mine exploded in one of the ship's paravanes. The detonation caused severe damage to her hull and flooded all three of her boiler rooms with of water. Her captain ordered 45 specialists to remain aboard ship and had the rest of the crew taken aboard the minesweeper "Gak". She was towed to Kronstadt by the destroyer , a process that took two days as  it was necessary to anchor at night. The two destroyers were subjected to constant German air attacks, and "Gordy" expended all of her anti-aircraft ammunition but escaped unscathed. At Kronstadt she was placed in a dry dock for repairs. "Gordy" received splinter damage during an air raid on Kronstadt on 21 September. Nine days later, the ship was transferred to Leningrad's Baltic Shipyard to finish her repairs, which were completed on 8 October. She was positioned off Ust-Izhora on 14 October to provide naval gunfire support for Soviet troops. "Gordy" bombarded German positions in support of a  local counter-attack near Sinyavino between 20 and 25 October. During 1941 the ship fired a total of 349 shells from her 130 mm guns. On 13 November she departed Gogland Island for Hanko as part of the fourth convoy to evacuate Soviet troops alongside the destroyer and the minelayer "". The ships ran into a minefield and "Surovy" was blown up, after which "Gordy" took the lead position in the convoy. The following morning a mine detonated in one of her paravanes without damage. Ten minutes later another struck the hull at 03:30 between the aft boiler room and the  forward engine room and knocked out her power, killing all personnel in both rooms. The ship listed at 30° which decreased to 10° with counter-flooding. Although the ship remained afloat due to her bulkheads, Yefet decided to abandon ship. While drifting, "Gordy"s stern struck another mine which caused her to sink suddenly at . The other ships in the convoy rescued 76 survivors and an additional dozen were able to sail to Gogland in one of her boats; among those lost was Yefet, her only wartime captain. She was officially struck from the Navy List on 19 November