NMS Mărăști
Romanian Navy's Vifor-class destroyer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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NMS Mărăști 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 Vijelie by the Romanians, she was renamed Sparviero in Italian service. Not completed until mid-1917, the ship engaged Austro-Hungarian ships in the Adriatic Sea only twice before the war ended in November 1918. She was given a new name as Mărăști when she was re-purchased by the Romanians in 1920.
Italian scout cruiser Sparviero, 1917–1920; later Mărăști | |
History | |
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Italy | |
Name | Sparviero |
Ordered | 1913 |
Builder | Pattison Shipyard, Naples, Italy |
Laid down | 29 January 1914 |
Launched | 26 March 1917 |
Commissioned | 15 July 1917 |
Out of service | 1920 |
Fate | Transferred to Romania, 1 July 1920 |
Romania | |
Name | Mărăști |
Namesake | Battle of Mărăști |
Acquired | 1 July 1920 |
Commissioned | 1 July 1920 |
Fate | Seized by the Soviet Union, 5 September 1944 |
Soviet Union | |
Name | Lovkiy |
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 | D12, 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), Mărăști took part in the Raid on Constanța a few days later and may have damaged a Soviet destroyer leader during the battle. The powerful Soviet Black Sea Fleet heavily outnumbered Axis naval forces in the Black Sea and the Romanian destroyers were limited to escort duties in the western half of the Black Sea during the war. In early 1944 the Soviets were able to cut off and surround the port of Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula; during this time the ship escorted convoys evacuating Axis troops from the port before she ran aground in April. Mărăști saw no further action as she was being repaired.
Later that year Romania switched sides, but despite that the Soviets seized the Romanian ships and incorporated them into the Soviet Navy. Renamed Lovkiy, the ship only served for a year before she was returned to the Romanians who redesignated her as D12 in 1952. The ship was discarded in 1961 and subsequently scrapped.