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Amiral Murgescu  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Amiral Murgescu			Santieri Galati, Galatz	8.1938	14.6.1939	5.1941	captured by USSR 5.9.1944 (Дон [Don])
Cetetea Alba			Santieri Galati, Galatz	1939	---	---	cancelled

Technical data

Displacement standard, t
Displacement full, t	812
Length, m	76.9
Breadth, m	9.10
Draught, m	2.50
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Krupp diesels
Power, h. p.	2200
Max speed, kts	16
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	3400(13)
Armament	2 x 1 - 102/45 Bofors, 2 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon, 2 x 1 - 13.2/76, 120 - 135 mines, 2 DCT
Complement	78

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Project history

Unique Romanian purpose-built minelayer and largest combat ship for that moment built in Romania. She was projected by German-Dutch company IvS, on the basis of construction of Dutch minelayer Jan van Brakel. Ship was built under the 1937 program. Sister-ship Cetetea Alba was laid down in 1939, but never completed, building of two more ships was cancelled. Successful multi-purpose ship combining moderate dimensions and strong armament, though not having closed mine deck; can carry 120-135 mines depending on type, mines were laid through three mine slipways aft.

Modernizations

1943-1944: + 2 x 1 - 20/65 C/38.

Naval service

21.8.1944 Amiral Murgescu was damaged by Soviet aircraft at Constanza, 5.9.1944 captured in the same place by Soviet troops and 14.9.1944 commissioned by Soviet Navy as Don.