Regele Ferdinand-class destroyer

Regele Ferdinand at sea
Class overview
Name	Regele Ferdinand class
Builders	Pattison, Naples, Italy
Operators	Romanian Navy  Soviet Navy
Preceded by	Vifor class
Succeeded by	None
Built	1927–1930
In commission	1930–1961
Planned	4
Completed	2
Cancelled	2
Scrapped	2
General characteristics (as built)
Type	Destroyer
Displacement	1,400 long tons (1,422 t) (standard) 1,850 long tons (1,880 t) (full load)
Length	101.9 m (334 ft 4 in) (o/a)
Beam	9.6 m (31 ft 6 in)
Draught	3.51 m (11 ft 6 in)
Installed power	4 Thornycroft boilers 52,000 shp (39,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines
Speed	37 knots (69 km/h; 43 mph)
Range	3,000 nmi (5,600 km; 3,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	212
Armament	5 × single 120 mm (4.7 in) guns 1 × single 76 mm (3 in) AA gun 2 × single 40 mm (1.6 in) AA guns 2 × triple 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes 40 depth charges 50 mines

The Regele Ferdinand class was a pair of destroyers built in Italy for the Romanian Navy during the late 1920s. The sister ships were the most modern and powerful warships of the Axis powers in the Black Sea during World War II.^[1] During the war they participated in the 1941 Raid on Constanța and the 1944 evacuation of the Crimea, although they spent the vast majority of the war escorting convoys in the Black Sea. The Romanians claimed that they sank two submarines during the war, but Soviet records do not confirm their claims. Following King Michael's Coup, where Romania switched sides and joined the Allies in late 1944, the two ships were seized and incorporated into the Soviet Black Sea Fleet. They were returned to Romania in 1951 and served until 1961 when they were scrapped.