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Bucovina 1920s

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Bucovina (ex-Soca, ex-Sava)	7/1951- M205		STT, Linz, Austria-Hungary	1914	31.5.1915	9/1915 // 4.1920	captured by USSR 5.9.1944 (Измаил [Izmail]), returned 7.1951, stricken 1959

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	580
Displacement full, t	?
Length, m	62.2
Breadth, m	10.3
Draught, m	1.30
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 boilers
Power, h. p.	1750
Max speed, kts	13.5
Fuel, t	coal 60
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armour, mm	belt: 40, deck: 25, CT: 50
Armament	1 x 2 - 120/42 G. L/45, 2 x 1 - 120/8 Haub. L/10, 2 x 1 - 66/24 G. L/26 K.15 BAK, 2 x 1 - 47/40 SFK L/44 (Skoda), 7 x 1 - 8.3/66
Complement	91

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Project history

Former Austro-Hungarian Sava. 31.12.1918 she was interned by Government of Yugoslavia at Novi Sad and commissioned by Yugoslavian Danube flotilia as Soca. Under the treaty of division of Austro-Hungarian fleet she was transferred 15.4.1920 to Romania and renamed Bucovina.

Ship protection

Hull had 40mm vertical and 25mm horizontal protection.

Modernizations

late 1930s: - 2 x 1 - 120/8, 2 x 1 - 66/24, 2 x 1 - 47/40, 7 x 1 - 8.3/66; + 3 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 Škoda

7/1951: - 3 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

5.9.1944 Bucovina was captured by Soviet troops off Silistria on Danube and 30.10.1944 was commissioned by Soviet Navy as Izmail. 3.7.1951 she was returned to Romania; BU in 1959-1960.