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NMS Regele Ferdinand
Romanian Navy's Regele Ferdinand-class destroyer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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NMS Regele Ferdinand was the lead ship of her class of two destroyers built in Italy for the Romanian Navy in the late 1920s. After the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 (Operation Barbarossa), she 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 in the Black Sea. The ship may have sunk two Soviet submarines during the war. In early 1944 the Soviets were able to cut off and surround the port of Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula. Regele Ferdinand covered convoys evacuating Axis troops from Sevastopol and was badly damaged in May when she rescued some troops herself.
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History | |
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Name | Regele Ferdinand |
Namesake | King Ferdinand I of Romania |
Ordered | 13 November 1926 |
Builder | Pattison Yard, Naples, Italy |
Laid down | June 1927 |
Launched | 2 December 1928 |
Commissioned | 7 September 1930 |
Fate | Seized by the Soviet Union, 5 September 1944 |
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Name | Likhoy |
Acquired | 5 September 1944 |
Commissioned | 20 October 1944 |
Stricken | 3 July 1951 |
Fate | Returned to Romania, 24 June 1951 |
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Acquired | 24 June 1951 |
Renamed | D21, 1952 |
Stricken | April 1961 |
Fate | Scrapped, after April 1961 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | Regele Ferdinand-class destroyer |
Displacement | |
Length | 101.9 m (334 ft 4 in) (o/a) |
Beam | 9.6 m (31 ft 6 in) |
Draught | 3.51 m (11 ft 6 in) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion | 2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines |
Speed | 37 knots (69 km/h; 43 mph) |
Range | 3,000 nmi (5,600 km; 3,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 212 |
Armament |
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Later that year Romania switched sides, but despite that the Soviets seized the Romanian ships and incorporated them into the Soviet Navy. Renamed Likhoy, the ship served until she was struck from the navy list in 1951 when she was returned to the Romanians who renamed her D21 in 1952. The ship was discarded in 1961 and subsequently scrapped.