NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Aurora (ex-Basilisk)			Lussinpiccolo, Trieste, Austro-Hungary	1901	28.11.1902	2.1903 // 1939	damaged 28.6.1941, never repaired

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	314
Displacement full, t
Length, m	46.0 pp 49.1 oa
Breadth, m	7.97
Draught, m	1.50 mean 2.20 max
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VTE, 1 cylindrical boyler
Power, h. p.	550
Max speed, kts	11
Fuel, t	coal
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 2 - 13.2/76, 40 mines
Complement	40

Project history

Former small Austro-Hungarian minelayer Basilisk, built at Trieste in 1909. In 1919 she was transferred to France and renamed Aurore. In 1922 she was transferred by Frenchmen to Romania, commissioned as Aurora. In 1929 Aurora wes transferred to Romanian ship company Societatea Romana Dunareana (SRD), in 1937 rebuilt at Galatz. In 1939 Aurora was mobilised and again commissioned by Romanian Navy.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

28.6.1941 Aurora was hard damaged by Soviet aircrafts at Sulina, put into repair at where 15.7.1941 was ultimately destroyed by Soviet aircraft.