Angara 1944
| Name | No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Аракс <Arax> (ex-Capitan Dumitrescu, ex-Mignonne) | Arsenal de Brest, France | 1917 | 1918 // 9/1944 | sunk 10/1/1945 | ||
| Ахтуба <Akhtuba> (ex-Locotenant-Comandor Stihi Eugen, ex-Friponne) | Arsenal de Lorient, France | 1916 | 1917 // 9/1944 | to Romania 10/1945 (Dumitresku) | ||
| Ангара <Angara> (ex-Sublocotenant Ghigulescu, ex-Impatiente) | Arsenal de Brest, France | 1916 | 1917 // 9/1944 | to Romania 10/1945 (Ghigulesku) |
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Displacement standard, t |
375 |
|
Displacement full, t |
443 |
|
Length, m |
57.8 pp 60.2 oa |
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Breadth, m |
7.00 |
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Draught, m |
2.80 |
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No of shafts |
2 |
|
Machinery |
Sulzer diesels |
|
Power, h. p. |
900 |
|
Max speed, kts |
14.5 |
|
Fuel, t |
diesel oil 30 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 3000(10) |
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Armament |
2 x 1 - 37/83 SK C/30, 2 x 1 - 7.9/79, 2 DCT |
|
Complement |
50 |
Ship project history: Former Romanian gunboats, bought in France in 1920 (2nd class avisos of Friponne class). 5/9/1944 they were captured by Soviet troops at Constanza and 14/9/1944 commissioned by Black Sea Fleet.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service:
Arax 10/1/1945 was mined in Odessa harbour, never repaired and
BU. Akhtuba and Angara 14/10/1945 were returned to Romania as Eugen Stihi and Ion Ghigulescu; subsequently
they were renamed D61 and D62. In 1960
both were converted to survey vessels and command ships and
stricken from lists of Romanian Navy only in 2002.
* On other version, Arax was not scrapped, and later returned to Romania where
she was repaired and under former name Dumitrescu continued to serve
till 1959.
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