NMS Mărășești
Romanian Navy's Vifor-class destroyer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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NMS Mărășești was one of four Vifor-class destroyers ordered by Romania shortly before the beginning of the First World War from Italy. All four sister ships were requisitioned when Italy joined the war in 1915. Originally named Vârtej by the Romanians, she was renamed Nibbio in Italian service. Not completed until mid-1918, the ship engaged Austro-Hungarian ships in the Adriatic Sea only once before the war ended in November. She was renamed Mărășești when she was re-purchased by the Romanians in 1920.
A postcard of Mărășești | |
History | |
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Italy | |
Name | Nibbio |
Builder | Pattison Shipyard, Naples, Italy |
Laid down | 15 July 1914 |
Launched | 30 January 1918 |
Commissioned | 15 May 1918 |
Out of service | 1920 |
Fate | Sold to Romania, 1 July 1920 |
Romania | |
Name | Mărășești |
Namesake | Battle of Mărășești |
Acquired | 1 July 1920 |
Commissioned | 1 July 1920 |
Fate | Seized by the Soviet Union, 5 September 1944 |
Soviet Union | |
Name | Lyogkiy |
Commissioned | 20 October 1944 |
Stricken | 12 October 1945 |
Fate | Returned to Romania, 12 October 1945 |
People's Republic of Romania | |
Acquired | 12 October 1945 |
Renamed | D11, 1952 |
Fate | Scrapped, April 1961 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | Vifor-class destroyer |
Displacement |
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Length | 94.7 m (310 ft 8 in) (o/a) |
Beam | 9.5 m (31 ft 2 in) |
Draft | 3.6 m (11 ft 10 in) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion | 2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines |
Speed | 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph) |
Range | 3,000 nmi (5,600 km; 3,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 146 |
Armament |
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After the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 (Operation Barbarossa), Mărășești was limited to escort duties in the western half of the Black Sea during the war by the powerful Soviet Black Sea Fleet which heavily outnumbered Axis naval forces there. The ship claimed to have sunk a Soviet submarines during the war, but this has not been confirmed by post-war research. In early 1944 the Soviets were able to cut off and surround the port of Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula; Mărășești escorted convoys evacuating Axis troops from the port and rescued some troops herself in May.
Later that year Romania switched sides, but despite that the Soviets seized the Romanian ships and incorporated them into the Soviet Navy. Renamed Lyogkiy, the ship only served for a year before she was returned to the Romanians who redesignated her as D11 in 1952. She was discarded in 1961 and subsequently scrapped.