NMS Mărășești

NMS Mărășești was one of four Vifor-class destroyers ordered by Romania shortly before the beginning of the First World War from Italy. All four sister ships were requisitioned when Italy joined the war in 1915. Originally named Vârtej by the Romanians, she was renamed Nibbio and classified as a scout cruiser in Italian service. Not completed until mid-1918, the ship took part in the Adriatic campaign of World War I but engaged Austro-Hungarian Navy ships in the Adriatic Sea only once before the war ended in November 1918. She was renamed Mărășești when she was re-purchased by the Romanians in 1920.

After Romania entered World War II with the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 (Operation Barbarossa), Mărășești was limited to escort duties in the western half of the Black Sea during the war by the Soviet Navy's powerful Black Sea Fleet, which heavily outnumbered Axis naval forces there. The ship claimed to have sunk a Soviet submarines during the war, but this has not been confirmed by post-war research. In early 1944 the Soviets were able to cut off and surround the port of Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula; Mărășești escorted convoys evacuating Axis troops from the port and rescued some troops herself in May 1944.

In August 1944, Romania surrendered to the Soviet Union and switched sides, joining the Allies, but despite this the Soviets seized Mărășești and incorporated her into the Soviet Navy. Renamed Lyogkiy, the ship only served for a year before she was returned to the Romanians, who once again named her Mărășești. They renamed her D11 in 1952. She was discarded in April 1961 and subsequently scrapped.