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IZMAIL monitor (1915 / 1944)


Ships


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)


Technical data


Displacement standard, t550
Displacement full, t 
Length, m

62.2

Breadth, m

10.5

Draught, m1.70
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, mmbelt: 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

Complement125


Standard scale images


<i>Izmail</i> 1944
Izmail 1944


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.