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  Regele Ferdinand 1935  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Regele Ferdinand	RF, 1952- D21, 1956- D1, 1959- D9		Pattison, Naples, Italy	6.1927	2.12.1928	9.1930	captured by USSR 5.9.1944 (Лихой [Likhoy]), returned 7.1951, stricken 4.1961
Regina Maria	RM, 1952- D22, 1956- D2, 1959- D10		Pattison, Naples, Italy	6.1927	2.3.1929	9.1930	captured by USSR 5.9.1944 (Летучий [Letuchiy]), returned 7.1951, stricken 4.1961

Technical data

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 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 4 Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.	52000
Max speed, kts	37
Fuel, t	oil 480
Endurance, nm(kts)	3000(15)
Armament	5 x 1 - 120/50 Bofors Mk 4, 1 x 1 - 76/40 Ansaldo M1917, 2 x 3 - 533 TT, 2 DCR (40), 50 mines
Complement	212

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Project history

In the mid-1920s Romania found means for building of two new destroyers. Order was placed in Italy on Pattison, built previous Mărăști class. This builder had communications with British shipbuilders, and frequently its projects were based on British experience. As prototype one of the best of contemporary ships, British leader Shakespeare, was chosen. Drawings were developed with the help of Thornycroft. Though on main guns new ships corresponded to a prototype and Mărăști class, guns were more strong 120mm/50 Bofors with 45° maximum elevation angle. Italian 533mm torpedoes were used in Romanian Navy for the first time. Significant difference from British prototype became machinery arrangement en echelon with Parsons geared turbines, made under licence by STT. On trials both ships reached 38kts. 7.9.1930 Regele Ferdinand and Regina Maria arrived to Constanza and were commissioned officially.

Modernizations

1930s, both: + 2 x 1 - 40/67 Škoda

1939, both: + 2 x 2 - 13.2/76, 2 DCT

1943, both: - 1 x 1 - 76/40; + 4 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, S-Gerät sonar

early 1944, both: - 1 x 1 - 120/50; + 1 x 1 - 88/42 SK C/30

Naval service

Regele Ferdinand was damaged by Soviet aircraft at Sevastopol 11.5.1944, repeatedly received seriously damages 20.8.1944 during raid of Soviet aircraft to Constanza. 5.9.1944 Regele Ferdinand and Regina Maria were captured Soviet troops at Constanza and 14.9.1944 commissioned by Soviet Navy as Likhoy and Letuchiy. 3.7.1951 both were returned to Romania.