Alexandru cel Bun (left) following behind the protected cruiser Elisabeta (right)
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History | |
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Romania | |
Name | Alexandru cel Bun |
Namesake | Alexander the Good |
Ordered | 1882 |
Builder | Thames Iron Works, London |
Laid down | 1882 |
Launched | 1882 |
Completed | 1882 |
Commissioned | 1882 |
Out of service | 1930s |
Fate | Scrapped |
General characteristics | |
Type | Minelayer |
Displacement |
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Length | 23 meters |
Beam | 4.57 meters |
Draft | 1.73 meters |
Propulsion | 100 hp steam, 1 shaft |
Speed | 9 knots |
Complement | 20 |
Armament |
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NMS Alexandru cel Bun was the first minelayer of the Romanian Naval Forces. Built by the United Kingdom in 1882, she served in the Romanian Navy for five decades, until being scrapped in the mid-1930s.