See main article: Fidonisy-class destroyer. The Fidonisy-class ships were designed as an improved version of the with an additional 102mm gun. Tserigo displaced 1326LT normal and 1580LT at full load with an overall length of 92.51m (303.51feet), a beam of 9.05m (29.69feet), and a draft of 3.2m (10.5feet) at full load.[1] She was propelled by two Parsons steam turbines, each driving one propeller, designed to produce a total of 29000shp using steam from five 3-drum Thorneycroft boilers for an intended maximum speed of 33kn. Tserigo carried enough fuel oil to give her a range of 1850nmi at . Her crew numbered 136.[2] [3]
The Fidonisy-class ships mounted a main armament of four single 102 mm Pattern 1911 Obukhov guns. Anti-aircraft defense for Tserigo was provided by a single 40sp=us1sp=us Vickers gun and four 7.62sp=us1sp=us Maxim machine guns. The destroyers mounted four triple 450sp=us1sp=us torpedo tube mounts amidships with a pair of reload torpedoes and could carry 80 M1908 naval mines. They were also fitted with a Barr and Stroud rangefinder and two 60sp=usNaNsp=us searchlights.
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.[4] 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.[5] When a White commission examined her, they deemed her 93% complete, as piping, armament, and torpedo tubes had not yet been installed.[6]
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. The Whites sold her for scrap in 1923. Following the French recognition of the Soviet Union, her Imperial Russian naval jack was lowered and the crew left the destroyer on 29 October 1924 when the French declared her to be Soviet property. Due to the state of Franco-Soviet relations, however, the ship was never returned to the Soviet Union and in the late 1920s the Soviet scrapmetal trust Rudmetallorg sold the hulk to a French firm for scrapping.[7] Tserigo rusted in Bizerte until 1934, when she was scrapped in place by a French company.[8]