Black Sea campaigns (1941–1944)
The Black Sea Campaigns were the operations of the Axis and Soviet naval forces in the Black Sea and its coastal regions during World War II between 1941 and 1944, including in support of the land forces.
German Type IIB submarine U-9, re-assembled for the Kriegsmarine at the Galați shipyard
Soviet cruiser Krasnyi Krym took part in defending against the Siege of Sevastopol
Italian MAS torpedo boat
Romanian torpedo boat Năluca, sunk by Soviet aircraft on 20 August 1944
The Romanian Naval Forces is the principal naval branch of the Romanian Armed Forces and operates in the Black Sea and on the Danube. It traces its history back to 1860.
Alexandru Ioan Cuza, the founder of the Romanian Navy
Model of the paddle ship România
"Fulgerul" (The Lightning) gunboat, built in 1873 at Toulon and armed in the following year at Galați, was the first military ship to have sailed under Romanian flag in maritime waters.
Potemkin at anchor with the Romanian flag hoisted on her mast, Constanța, July 1905