Back NMS Regina Maria French NMS Regina Maria Italian レジーナ・マリーア (駆逐艦) Japanese NMS Regina Maria Romanian
 Regina Maria off Sevastopol, 1944
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| History | |
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 Romania | |
| Name | Regina Maria |
| Namesake | Queen Marie of Romania |
| Ordered | 13 November 1926 |
| Builder | Pattison Yard, Naples, Italy |
| Laid down | 1927 |
| Launched | 2 March 1929 |
| Commissioned | 7 September 1930 |
| Fate | Seized by the Soviet Union, 5 September 1944 |
 Soviet Union | |
| Name | Letuchiy (Летучий) |
| Namesake | Russian word for "flying", an allusion to the Flying Dutchman (Letuchiy gollándets) |
| Acquired | 5 September 1944 |
| Commissioned | 20 October 1944 |
| Stricken | 3 July 1951 |
| Fate | Returned to Romania, 24 June 1951 |
 People's Republic of Romania | |
| Acquired | 24 June 1951 |
| Renamed | D22, 1952 |
| Stricken | April 1961 |
| Fate | Scrapped, after April 1961 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type | Regele Ferdinand-class destroyer |
| Displacement | |
| 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) |
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| 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 |
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NMS Regina Maria was the second and last of the two Regele Ferdinand-class destroyers built in Italy for the Romanian Navy in the late 1920s. After the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 (Operation Barbarossa), she took part in the Raid on Constanța a few days later and may have damaged a Soviet destroyer leader during the battle. The powerful Soviet Black Sea Fleet heavily outnumbered Axis naval forces in the Black Sea and the Romanian destroyers were limited to escort duties in the western half of the Black Sea during the war. In early 1944 the Soviets were able to cut off and surround the port of Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula. Regina Maria covered convoys evacuating Axis troops from Sevastopol in May and rescued several hundred herself.
Later that year Romania switched sides, but despite that the Soviets seized the Romanian ships and incorporated them into the Soviet Navy. Renamed Letuchiy, the ship served until she was struck from the navy list in 1951 when she was returned to the Romanians who renamed her D22 in 1952. The ship was discarded in 1961 and subsequently scrapped.