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Năluca 1935

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Năluca (ex-Tb 82F)     Danubius, Porto Ré, Austria-Hungary 10.1913 11.8.1914 8.1916 // 7.1920 sunk 20.8.1944
Fulgerul (ex-Tb 84F)     Danubius, Porto Ré, Austria-Hungary 11.1913 21.11.1914 11.1916 // 7.1920 wrecked 8.2.1922
Smeul (ex-Tb 93F), 10.1945- E1 E1   Danubius, Fiume, Austria-Hungary 1.1915 25.11.1915 4.1916 // 7.1920 captured by USSR 5.9.1944 (Торос [Toros]), returned 10.1945, BU 1960


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

266

Displacement full, t

330

Length, m

57.8 pp 58.8

Breadth, m

5.80

Draught, m

1.50

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 AEG-Curtiss steam turbines, 2 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

5000

Max speed, kts

28

Fuel, t

coal 20 + oil 34

Endurance, nm(kts)1200(16)
Armament

1 x 1 - 75/27 G. L/30 K.16 BAG, 1 x 1 - 66/27 G. L/30 K.09, 1 x 1 - 8.3/66, 2 x 2 - 450 TT

Complement

41



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<i>Năluca</i> 1943
Năluca 1943


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<i>Năluca </i>1935
Năluca 1935


Project history

Former Austro-Hungarian torpedo boats, transferred Romania on reparations in 1920.

Modernizations

1939, Năluca, Smeul: - 1 x 1 - 75/27, 1 x 1 - 8.3/66; + 1 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 1 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 4 DCT, 2 DCR

1943-1944, Năluca, Smeul: - 2 x 2 - 450 TT

Naval service

Fulgerul (ex-84F) was wrecked in Bosporus 8.2.1922 en route to Romania. Năluca in 1944 was converted to auxiliary and 20.8.1944 sunk by Soviet by aircraft at Constanza. Smeul 5.9.1944 was captured by Soviet troops at Constanza, 14.9.1944 commissioned by Soviet Navy as guard ship Toros and 12.10.1945 returned to Romania.