Romanian fleet during WWI

102 mm gun is standard russian navy gun (also armed destroers Novik-class)
63 mm gun-russian navy anti-aircraft gun

Hi everybody, I’m looking for information about the participation of Romanian fleet during the Balkan wars.
In the First Balkan war Romanian ships were used to transport weapons and ammunitions from Konstanza to Istanbul. On 04.11.1912 bulgarian torpedo-boat squadron captured Romanian ship near Ineada. Can somebody tell me the name of that ship?

I would like to add some info on Col. Dragu. He was captured by the Reds and an unknown - at that time - Romanian Secret Service agent named Moruzov, who had very good contacts with the Reds, succeeded in freeing him miraculously. Only afterwards was he able to complete his mission, otherwise his destiny was the Reds' firing squad.
It has no connection with the Romanian fleet, but Col. Dragu succeeded to complete his mission of pacifying Southern Bassarabia, a territory full of different ethnic minorities, from Germans to Jews, from Bulgarians to Turks, from Tartars to Russians, very difficult to control due to different allegiances in WW1 and right after its end.

This post has been edited by mateias on December 08, 2007 07:19 pm

Were there any other actions by Romanian naval forces against the Bolsheviks?

Dave G
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From a book of Wulff Olaf Richard (former leader of the Hu Royal Navy)
"The Austro-Hugarian Danube Flotilla in the WW 1914-1918" (published in Russia)
On Apr.10, 1918, the (AH) ships left Sulina and entered in the Oceakov channel (Chilia), waiting for good weather. In Vilcovo they saw the first romanian monitor, then another two on the Oceakov channel…
The Command has made an exchange of visits of courtesy to the monitor “Mihail Kogalniceanu” whose CO was trained in the Austrian Navy. From the conversation it became clear that this officer, on the day of declaration of war issued by Romania, launched the torpedo onto the ships at Rusciuk. The victim was a barge of gasoline, but "Temes" (later "Bosna"), continued to fight successfully and came till to the mouth of the Danube.
(...)
In the evening of Sept.11, all the (AH) ships gathered in Reni. Sailing up to the river, they saw one romanian monitor in Vilkovo and other three in Chilia, also here 13 torpedo-boats and patrol-boats.


This post has been edited by Petre on February 29, 2012 08:30 pm