NMS Mărășești
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| History | |
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 Italy
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| Name: | Nibbio |
| Ordered: | 1913 |
| Builder: | Pattison Shipyard, Naples |
| Commissioned: | 1918 |
| Out of service: | 1920 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Romania, 1920 |
 Romania
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| Name: | Mărășești |
| Namesake: | Battle of Mărășești |
| Commissioned: | 1920 |
| Out of service: | 1944 |
| Refit: | 1925, Galați shipyard |
| Reinstated: | 1945 |
| Fate: | Deleted, 1965 |
 Soviet Union
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| Name: | Lyogkiy |
| Commissioned: | 1944 |
| Out of service: | 1945 |
| Fate: | Returned to Romania |
| Service record | |
| Commanders: | Pelimon Aurel (World War II) |
| Operations: | |
| Victories: | 1 submarine possibly sunk |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Aquila-class cruiser |
| Displacement: | 1,820 tons |
| Length: | 94.7 m (310 ft 8 in) |
| Beam: | 9.5 m (31 ft 2 in) |
| Draft: | 3.6 m (11 ft 10 in) |
| Propulsion: | Tosi turbines, 5 Thornycroft boilers, 2 shafts, 39,500 horse power |
| Speed: | 37.4 knots (69.3 km/h) |
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| Complement: | 146 |
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NMS Mărășești was an Aquila-class scout cruiser, built in Italy during the First World War. She spent most of her career in Romanian service, during World War II she and her sister being the most heavily-armed warships of the Romanian Navy and of the Axis Powers in the Black Sea. After one year in Soviet service, she was returned to Romania and continued to be used until 1965.
Like her three sister ships, she was ordered in 1913 by Romania from the Pattison Shipyard in Naples. Designed by engineer Luigi Scaglia and based on Romanian specifications, she was to be a large destroyer armed with three 120 mm guns, four 75 mm guns, five torpedo tubes, and have a 10-hour endurance at full speed, as she was required to operate in the limited perimeter of the Black Sea. However, she was interned by Italy on 5 June 1916, when the country joined the First World War, and completed as scout cruiser, being commissioned as Nibbio on 15 May 1918. She was transferred to Romania along with one of her sister ships, Sparviero, on 1 July 1920. She was renamed Mărășești and her sister was renamed Mărăști.
The cruiser measured 94.7 meters in length, with a beam of 9.5 meters and a draught of 3.6 meters. She was powered by Tosi turbines and five Thornycroft boilers, generating an output of just over 39,500 hp powering two shafts, which gave her a top speed of 37.4 knots. She was armed with three 6-inch (152 mm) Armstrong naval guns, four 3-inch (76 mm) Ansaldo guns, two 6.5 mm machine guns and two twin 457 mm torpedo tubes. She had a crew of 146 and a range of 1,700 nautical miles at 15 knots, as well as 380 nautical miles at 34 knots.
She had a displacement of 1,820 tons.
Mărăști and Mărășești were the most heavily-armed Axis warships in the Black Sea, and had the second greatest displacement, after the cruiser-sized submarine tender Constanța. The succeeding Regele Ferdinand-class destroyers were more modern, but not as heavy and heavily armed. Mărăști and Mărășești were refitted at the Galați shipyard in Romania in 1925, and sent back to Naples for rearming in 1926. Their armament was modified several times, reaching its final configuration in early 1944: 4 x 120 mm naval guns, 4 x 37 mm anti-aircraft guns, 4 x 20 mm anti-aircraft guns, 4 x 13 mm machine guns, 4 x 457 mm torpedo tubes, 50 mines, 1 depth charge thrower and two depth charge racks with 20 depth charges each. The two warships were thus effectively converted to destroyers, reverting to their initial designation prior to World War I. Their 6-inch Armstrong guns were used as coastal artillery (such as the Tudor battery near Constanța with three guns).
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