Career
Ordered:	Drazki: February 24, 1904 Strogi:January 6, 1906
Laid down:
Launched:	Drazki: August 23, 1907 Strogi:August 1908
Commissioned:	Drazki: January 5, 1908 Strogi: August 1909
Decommissioned:
Fate:	Drazki: scrapped in 1957 Strogi: museal ship Drazki
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	97 tons
Length:	38 m
Beam:	4.4 m
Draft:	2.6 m
Propulsion:	steam engine 1900 hp, 2 boilers
Speed:	26 knots
Range:
Depth:
Complement:	23-30
Armament:	3 x 47 mm guns; 3 x 450 mm torpedo tubes;
Motto:

Drazki (Bulgarian language Дръзки) was a Bulgarian Navy torpedo boat (alternate name spelling is Druzki).

Drazki was one of a series of six torpedo boats, built for Bulgaria in the French Schneider et Cie works in Chalon-sur-Saône. Other ships were: Smeli (Смели), Khrabri (Храбри), Shumny, Letyashty (Летящи) and Strogi (Строги). The ships were built in France and transported in parts to Bulgaria, where they were launched and completed in Varna. Drazki, Smeli and Khrabri were ordered in 1904, sent to Bulgaria in April 1905, launched on August 23, 1907, and commissioned on January 5, 1908. The three boats of the second series were ordered in January 1906, launched in August 1908 and commissioned in August 1909.

Bulgarian torpedo boats took part in the I Balkan War 1912 - 1913 on the Black Sea. On November 20, 1912 Letyashty, Smeli, Strogi and Drazki were sent from Varna to intercept Egyptian transports. A commander was Captain 2nd rank Dimitr Dobrev on the Letyashty, the Drazki was commanded by michman Georgi Kupov. After midnight, on November 21 they encountered Turkish protected cruiser Hamidiye with two destroyers approximately 32 miles from Varna. On 0:43 hour, Bulgarian ships fired torpedos. The first three missed, but Drazki, being the last ship in line, fired torpedo from a short distance about 100 m, which hit and seriously damaged Hamidiye. Then, Bulgarian boats returned to Varna. It was the biggest achievement in a history of a small Bulgarian Navy.

Bulgarian torpedo boats did not take active part in the II Balkan War. Later they took part in the World War I, in which Letyashty was lost. After the war, the remaining boats, being obsolete now, were re-classified as patrol boats.

On October 15, 1942, Drazki sunk in Varna harbour due to gunpowder explosion, but was soon repaired. In 1944 however, it became a gunnery target ship. By 1957 it was decided to commemorate this most famous ship of the Bulgarian Navy, but by that time it had been already scrapped to pieces. Her gun, funnel and some details were mounted on her sister ship Strogi, which, from November 21, 1957, became a museal ship Drazki. She is currently preserved on a static land display in Naval Museum in Varna. Khrabri was scraped in 1962.

External links

• Attack on "Hamidiye" (in Bulgarian)