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Engageante

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Аракс [Arax] (ex-Căpitan Dumitrescu Constantin, ex-Mignonne)			Arsenal de Brest, France		1917	1918 // 9.1944	sunk 10.1.1945
Ахтуба [Akhtuba] (ex-Locotenent-Comandor Stihi Eugen, ex-Friponne)			Arsenal de Lorient, France		1916	1917 // 9.1944	to Romania 10.1945 (Dumitresku)
Ангара [Angara] (ex-Sublocotenent Ghigulescu Ion, ex-Impatiente)			Arsenal de Brest, France		1916	1917 // 9.1944	to Romania 10.1945 (Ghigulesku)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	375
Displacement full, t	443
Length, m	57.8 pp 60.2 oa
Breadth, m	7.00
Draught, m	2.80
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 - 37/80 SK C/30, 2 x 1 - 7.9/79, 2 DCT
Complement	50

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Project history

Former Romanian gunboats, bought in France in 1920 (2nd class avisos of Friponne class). 5.9.1944 they were captured by Soviet troops at Constanza and 14.9.1944 commissioned by Black Sea Fleet.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Arax 10.1.1945 was mined in Odessa harbour, never repaired and BU. Akhtuba and Angara 14.10.1945 were returned to Romania as Eugen Stihi and Ion Ghigulescu; subsequently they were renamed D61 and D62. In 1960 both were converted to survey vessels and command ships and stricken from lists of Romanian Navy only in 2002. * On other version, Arax was not scrapped, and later returned to Romania where she was repaired and under former name Dumitrescu continued to serve till 1959.