NMS Mărăști

NMS Mărăști was one of four Vifor-class destroyers ordered from Italy by Romania shortly before the beginning of the World War I. All four sister ships were requisitioned when Italy joined the war in 1915. Originally named Vijelie by the Romanians, she was renamed Sparviero in Italian service. Not completed until mid-1917, the ship took part in the later stages of the Adriatc campaign but engaged Austro-Hungarian Navy ships in the Adriatic Sea only twice before the war ended in November 1918. She was renamed Mărăști when the Romanians re-purchased her in 1920.

After the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 (Operation Barbarossa) during World War II, Mărăști took part in combat during the Soviet Navy's 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; during this time Mărăști escorted convoys evacuating Axis troops from the port before she ran aground in April 1944. Mărăști saw no further action as she was being repaired.

In August 1944 Romania switched sides and joined the Allies, but despite that the Soviets seized the Romanian ships and incorporated them into the Soviet Navy. Renamed Lovkiy, the ship only served for a year before the Soviets returned her to the Romanians. The Romanians once again named her Mărăști, but renamed her D12 in 1952. The ship was discarded in 1961 and subsequently scrapped.