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Basarabia 1920s

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Basarabia (ex-Marx, ex-Ujvidek, ex-Inn)	7/1951- M206		Danubius, Budapest, Austria-Hungary	11.1913	25.2.1915	4.1915 // 4.1920	captured by USSR 5.9.1944 (Керчь [Kerch]), returned 7.1951, stricken 1960

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	541
Displacement full, t	770
Length, m	62.0
Breadth, m	10.5
Draught, m	1.80
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	1600
Max speed, kts	12.2
Fuel, t	coal 60
Endurance, nm(kts)	700(10)
Armour, mm	belt: 40, deck: 35, turrets: 50, CT: 40
Armament	1 x 2 - 120/42 G. L/45, 3 x 1 - 120/8 Haub. L/10, 2 x 1 - 66/47 G. L/50 BAG, 6 x 1 - 8.3/66
Complement	133

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Project history

Former Austro-Hungarian Inn. 22.9.1917 she was sunk lower Braila on Danube by a mine; 18.11.1917 she was salvaged and towed off into repair to Budapest. 21.3.1919 she passed under control of Hungarian Soviet republic, 13.4.1919 renamed Ujvidek; late July, 1919 after repair as Marx she was commissioned by Hungarian Danube flotilia. In November, 1919 ship was interned by Government of Yugoslavia at Novi Sad. Under the treaty on division of Austro-Hungarian fleet ship was transferred to Romania 15.4.1920 and renamed Basarabia.

Ship protection

Machinery had 50mm vertical and 19mm horizontal protection.

Modernizations

late 1930s: - 2 x 1 - 66/47, 6 x 1 - 8.3/66; + 1 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 2 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 1 x 2 - 13.2/76.

(1942-1943): - 1 x 2 - 120/40, 3 x 1 - 120/10; + 2 x 2 - 120/50 Škoda-Bofors Mk4

7/1951: - 1 x 1 - 37/83, 2 x 1 - 20/65, 1 x 2 - 13.2/76; + 5 x 1 - 37/73 70K, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 4 x 1 - 12.7/79

Naval service

Basarabia 5.9.1944 was captured by Soviet troops on lower Danube and 30.10.1944 was commissioned by Soviet Navy as Kerch. 3.7.1951 she was returned to Romania.