Izmail 1944
Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
Измаил [Izmail] (ex-Bucovina, ex-Soča, ex-Sava) | 534 | Austria-Werft, Linz, Austria-Hungary | 1914 | 31.5.1915 | 9.1915 // 11.1944 | to Romania 7.1951 (M205) |
Displacement standard, t |
550 |
Displacement full, t |
|
Length, m |
62.2 |
Breadth, m |
10.5 |
Draught, m |
1.70 |
No of shafts |
2 |
Machinery |
2 VTE, 2 Yarrow boilers |
Power, h. p. |
1600 |
Max speed, kts |
12 |
Fuel, t |
oil 62 |
Endurance, nm(kts) | 700(9) |
Armour, mm | belt: 40, deck: 60, turrets: 50, CT: 50 |
Armament |
2 x 2 - 120/44 Škoda, 5 x 1 - 37/63 70K, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk IV, 4 x 1 - 12.7/79 |
Complement |
125 |
Project history: Former Romanian monitors, captured by Soviet troops on Danube 6-29.8.1944 and 10.11.1944 commissioned by Danube Flotilla.
Ship protection: No additional comments.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: 28.2.1948 all were laid up and 3.7.1951 returned to Romania.
Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.
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