NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Азов [Azov] (ex-Ion C. Bratianu)			STT, Trieste, Austria-Hungary // Santieri Galati, Galaz, Romania	1906	1907	1907 // 11.1944	to Romania 7.1951 (M202)
Мариуполь [Mariupol] (ex-Alexandru Lachovari)			STT, Trieste, Austria-Hungary // Santieri Galati, Galaz, Romania	1906	1907	1908 // 11.1944	to Romania 7.1951 (M201)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	680
Displacement full, t	750
Length, m	62 - 63.5
Breadth, m	10.5
Draught, m	1.80
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	1800
Max speed, kts	13.5
Fuel, t	coal 60
Endurance, nm(kts)	1500(9.7)
Armour, mm	belt: 75 - 70, bulkheads: 60, deck: 75 - 20, turrets: 75 - 50, CT: 75 - 50
Armament	Azov: 3 x 1 - 120/50 Škoda-Bofors Mk 4, 5 x 1 - 37/63 70K, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk IV, 4 x 1 - 12.7/79 Mariupol: 3 x 1 - 120/50 Škoda-Bofors Mk 4, 5 x 1 - 37/63 70K, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk IV
Complement	119

Standard scale images

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

Deck had 45-20mm thickness increasing to 75mm over boiler room.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

28.2.1948 both were laid up and 3.7.1951 returned to Romania.