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Lovkiy

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Лёгкий [Liogkiy] (ex-Mărășești, ex-Nibbio, ex-Vartej)		E4	Pattison, Napoli, Italy	7.1914	30.1.1918	5.1918 // 8.1944	to Romania 10.1945 (D11)
Ловкий [Lovkiy] (ex-Mărăști, ex-Sparviero, ex-Vijelie)		E3	Pattison, Napoli, Italy	1.1914	26.3.1917	7.1917 // 8.1944	to Romania 10.1945 (D12)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1410
Displacement full, t	1723
Length, m	94.2 wl 94.7 oa
Breadth, m	9.47
Draught, m	3.51
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Tosi steam turbines, 5 Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.	45000
Max speed, kts	34
Fuel, t	oil 260
Endurance, nm(kts)	1700(15)
Armament	2 x 2 - 120/45 Schneider-Canet-Armstrong 1918-19, 1 x 2 - 37/80 SK C/30, 2 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 4 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76, 2 x 1 -13.2/76, 2 x 2 - 450 TT, 1 DCT, 2 DCR (40), 50 mines
Complement	139

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Project history

Former Romanian destroyers Mărăşti and Mărăşeşti. 5.9.1944 they were captured by Soviet troops at Constanza and 14.9.1944 commissioned by Black Sea Fleet as Lovkiy and Liogkiy. Because of accident real speed of former ship did not exceed 22kts.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

12.10.1945 both ships were returned to Romania, renamed in D11 and D12, and served till mid-1950s.