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LETUCHIY destroyers (1930/1944)

Regele Ferdinand 1939

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Летучий [Letuchiy] (ex-Regina Maria)     Pattison, Napoli, Italy 6.1927 2.3.1928 9.1930 // 8.1944 to Romania 7.1951 (D21)
Лихой [Likhoy] (ex-Regele Ferdinand)     Pattison, Napoli, Italy 6.1927 2.12.1928 9.1930 // 8.1944 to Romania 7.1951 (D22)
  

Displacement standard, t

1400

Displacement full, t

1850

Length, m

102.0

Breadth, m

9.60

Draught, m

3.51

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Parsons geared steam turbines sets, 4 Thornycroft boilers

Power, h. p.

48000

Max speed, kts

35

Fuel, t

oil 480

Endurance, nm(kts) 3000(15)

Armament

4 x 1 - 120/50 Bofors Mk 4, 1 x 1 - 88/42 SK C/30, 2 x 1 - 40/63 Škoda, 4 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76, 2 x 3 - 533 TT, 2 DCT, 2 DCR (40), 50 mines

Sensors S-Gerät sonar

Complement

212

Project history: Former Romanian destroyers Regele Ferdinand and Regina Maria. 5.9.1944 they were captured by Soviet troops at Constanza and 14.9.1944 commissioned by Black Sea Fleet as Likhoy and Letuchiy.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: 3.7.1951 both destroyers were returned to Romania, renamed D22 and D21, later — in D11 and D10, and served till the end of 1950s.

Likhoy late 1940s

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