Wreck of the destroyer "Moskva"

Romania / Constanta / Costinesti /
 Second World War 1939-1945, shipwreck, underwater, interesting place, invisible
Moskva was commissioned in 1938 and twice made port visits in Turkey before Operation Barbarossa began on 22 June 1941. Moskva and its sister ship Kharkov bombarded the Romania port of Constanţa with a total of 350 rounds on 26 June, but Moskva either struck a mine or was torpedoed in a case of mistaken identity by the Soviet submarine Shch-206 which also attacked, but missed, Kharkov which had been damaged by near-misses from 28 cm (11 in) shells from the German coast defense battery Tirpitz and bombs from Romanian aircraft.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_class_destroyer
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Coordinates:   43°57'43"N   28°39'52"E

Comments

  • There weren't Romanian aircraft 'cause Romanian planes were old and poorly armoured, so Moskva's and Kharkov's AA-guns would turn them into fireballs. Moscva is the victim of Tirpitz and, if I don't mistaken, sea mine fild. It was very nice and stong ship of Soviet Chernomorskiy Navy...
  • Please do some serious reading before posting such comments driven by nationalist feelings. Read more about the IAR-80's and 81's here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAR_80. They were neither old nor poorly armored.
  • I didn't said about Romanian Aviation at all. Surely, there were nice and strong planes like IAR-80 or -81, but they weren't night fighters in Constanta. And, how I know, night attack of Soviet ships firstly was taken as bombers strike, and Romanian and German AA-guns were fired at suspected air targets. Only when Moskva hit a mine, Tirpitz opened fire to ships. When I wrote my first comment, I hadn't any nationalist feelings. Dear Mentatus, I've read many books about Second World War and Great Patriotic War, but I live in country were archives are still Top Secret. That's why, maybe, we've different facts about this tragical for many simple sailors night action.
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