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Locotenent-Comandor Stihi Eugen 1935

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Căpitan Dumitrescu Constantin (ex-Impatiente)	Dm		Arsenal de Brest, France		1916	1917 // 1.1920	captured by USSR 5.9.1944 (Аракс [Arax])
Locotenent-Comandor Stihi Eugen (ex-Friponne), 1991- Eugen Stihi	St, 1948- DB2, 1958- NH112		Arsenal de Lorient, France		1916	1917 // 1.1920	captured by USSR 5.9.1944 (Ахтуба [Akhtuba]), returned 10.1945, survey vessel 1960
Locotenent Lepri Remus (ex-Chiffonne)	Lp		Arsenal de Lorient, France		1917	1918 // 1.1920	sunk 11.1.1941
Sublocotenent Ghiculescu Ion (ex-Mignonne)	Gh, 1948- DB1, 1958- NH113		Arsenal de Brest, France		1917	1918 // 1.1920	captured by USSR 5.9.1944 (Ангара [Angara]), returned 10.1945, survey vessel 1960

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	375
Displacement full, t	443
Length, m	57.8 pp 60.2 oa
Breadth, m	7.00
Draught, m	2.60
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Sulzer diesels
Power, h. p.	900
Max speed, kts	14.5
Fuel, t	diesel oil 30
Endurance, nm(kts)	3000(10)
Armament	2 x 1 - 100/45 M1897, 2 DCT
Complement	50

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Project history

Former French 2nd class avisos of Friponne class representing specialised ASW ships. They were bought by Romania 9.1.1920.

Modernizations

1939-1940, all: - 2 x 1 - 100/45; + 2 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30.

1939-1940, Locotenent Lepri Remus: + mines

1942-1943, all survived: + 1 x 1 - 20/65 C/38

early 1944, all survived: - 1 x 1 - 37/80; + 1 x 1 - 88/42 SK C/30

Naval service

Locotenent Lepri Remus 11.10.1941 was mined and lost off Sulina. Căpitan Dumitrescu, Locotenenet Commander Stihi Eugen and Sublocotenent Ghiculescu 5.9.1944 were captured by Soviet troops at Constanza and 14.9.1944 commissioned by Soviet Navy as Arax, Akhtuba and Angara. Akhtuba and Angara 14.10.1945 were returned to Romania as Eugen Stihi and Ion Ghiculescu. In 1960 both were converted to survey / command vessels with returning of former names Eugen Stihi and Ion Ghiculescu and discarded finally only in 2002.