Battle of Jibrieni
| Battle of Jibrieni | |||||||
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| Part of the Black Sea Campaigns of the Eastern Front of World War II | |||||||
Romanian destroyer Regele Ferdinand | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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Romania Bulgaria | Soviet Union | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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2 destroyers 2 torpedo boats 2 gunboats 3 cargo ships | 1 submarine | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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None |
1 submarine sunk 16–19 killed | ||||||
The Battle of Jibrieni was an attack on 17 December 1941 by a Soviet submarine on an Axis convoy and its Romanian escorts off the coast of the Romanian village of Jibrieni (today Prymorske, Ukraine). The engagement ended with the sinking of the attacking Soviet submarine M-59.