The naval battles of the Great Patriotic War were not inferior in their intensity, heroism and drama to the battles on the land front. Many circumstances of those long-standing events are still covered with a veil of secrecy and surrounded by legends. This happened with the heroic death of three destroyers of the Black Sea Fleet in battle with enemy aircraft after a raid on the Crimea in October 1943. So it happened with the tragedy of the destroyer of the Northern Fleet "Crushing" in 1942. In his book, the author - the famous Russian writer-marine painter Captain 1st Rank Vladimir Shigin opens new little-known facts of the Great Patriotic War and new pages of mass heroism of Soviet sailors