Italian Ships In Romanian Royal Navy

[dorupantos]

There are five ships built in ITALY who served in Romanian Royal Navy : destroyers MARASTI and MARASESTI, destroyers KING FERDINAND and QUEEN MARIA and the legendary submarine DELFINUL(the Dolphin) .Also in RRN served midget submarines CB-class built in Italy in WW2 .

[dorupantos]

Marasti was ex-italian Sparviero built and launched at Pattison shipyard in Napoli at 26 march 1917 .Marasesti ex-italian Nibbio was also launched in Pattison shipyard in 30 ianuary 1918 .They were sold and arrived in Romania in1920 modernized with twin turrets .Both was scrapped in 1963 .
Following the end of WW1 and the repurchase of two Marasti-class detroyers the Romanian governement orderd from Italy two more modern destroyers (also built in Pattison shipyard in Naples). The design of this new destroyers was based on the brutish Shakespeare class destroyer leader .They were named Regele Ferdinand (King Ferdinand) and Regina Maria (Queen Marry). Regele Ferdinand was launched at 1 december 1928 and Regina Maria in 2 march 1929. Both were scrapped 1960's .
Delfinul was the most succesfull submarine of Romanian Royal Navy during WW2 .He was launched at Fiume shipyard in 1930 but the completing takes a little longer 1926-1936. Delfinul (The Dolphin) was send in Romania in 1936 and was scrapped in the late 1970's .
These ships were the most powerfull units available to the Axis powers during the Naval war in the Black Sea .

[astraltrader]

Dorupantos - Is there any chance you could name each picture you upload to the forum rather than just a number??

In many of your posts it is impossible to work out which ship is what.

[dorupantos]

Sorry, i gave to each picture a number because i had post two same pics in a thread . I take note of this and in the future i will name the pics with original name . After a week i'm still a beginner !

[astraltrader]

Many thanks my friend :)

[dorupantos]

During WW2 in Romanian Royal Navy have served some italian midget-submarines CB-class . Pics of romanian CB-class are presented in thread RRN on this forum .
Pics : conserved CB-class submarines in Croatia and italian midgets CB-class .

[dorupantos]

Italian "esploratore leggero" SPARVIERO , the ancestor of Romanian Royal Navy destroyers class MARASTI .

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Esploratore AQUILA in Taranto .

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Italian CB-Class midget submarine in Sevastopol , in colour .

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The bow of Aquila-class destroyers ( "esploratore" NIBBIO" ) with the first and verry interresting disposal of the front main guns in two turrets (ww1). After ww1 Aquila-class destroyers were fitted by twin turrets .