Mircea (ship)
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Mircea, also known as NS Mircea or Bricul Mircea, is a three-masted barque built in 1938 in Hamburg by the Blohm & Voss shipyard as a training vessel for the Romanian Navy. Her design is based on the
Mircea in 2019
The bow figurehead of the ship
1936 stamp featuring the NMS Mircea
Mircea undergoing sea trials
Romanian Naval Forces
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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.
Mircea (ship)
…over from the 1882 ship of the same name), is a three-masted barque built in 1938 in Hamburg by the Blohm & Voss shipyard as a training vessel for the Romanian Navy. Her design is based on the successful plans of Gorch Fock; the last of a series of four sister ships. The ship is named after the Wallachian Voivode…
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