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Romanian Navy - Historical Guide to the Romanian Fleet
By Alice
This Guide gives you the historical flavour of the Romanian ships and how to design them for roleplaying and historical playthroughs.
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Introduction
The Romanian Navy is one of the smallest in Europe at the beginning of 1936 with 4 ships in their fleet.
This guide aims to bring some historical ships to the Romanian navy as well as some of my own made up designs to interpret what if scenarios for a Greater Romanian navy.
Ships in construction or already in the Fleet
The Regia Marina starts with 4 ships with 1 under construction.

Destroyers
  • Marasti: 2
  • Regele Ferdinand: 2
Submarine
  • Delfinul Class: 1
Destroyers
Marasti Class
Produced: 4
Owned: 2
The first class of destroyers for Romania is the Marasti class. This class consists of 4 ships with 2 in the Romanian fleet whilst the other 2 being kept by the Italians and later given to the Spanish.
The design in-game is how I would design it's original layout. The design below is the for the 1939 modernisation.
Design for the Class:

Early Destroyer Hull
  • Light Battery I - (120mm)
  • Anti-Air III - (37mm)
  • Fire Control - Your Choice
  • Radar/Sonar - Your Choice
  • Torpedo I - (450mm)
  • Engine I - (45,000hp)
  • Depth Charge
  • Anti-Air I - (50 cal) - Later modernised to Anti-Air II (20mm) in 1943-44

Ships of Class:
  • Marasti
  • Marasesti
  • Vifor
  • Viscol

Regele Ferdinand Class
Produced: 2
Owned: 2
The Regele Ferdinand class is the last class of destroyers for Romania. After this Romania historically focused on Submarines. It's design in-game isn't how I would of put it as.
Design for the Class:

Early Destroyer Hull
  • Light Battery II - (120mm)
  • Anti-Air I - (50 cal) - Later modernised to Anti-Air II (20mm) in 1943
  • Fire Control - Your Choice
  • Radar/Sonar - Your Choice
  • Torpedo III - (533mm)
  • Engine II - (52,000hp)
  • Mines
  • Depth Charge

Ships of Class:
  • Regele Ferdinand
  • Regina Maria
Submarines
Delfinul Class
Produced: 1
Planned: 1 - under construction
The Delfinul Class is the first submarine class built by Romania consisting of a single ship. In-game the design is almost correct however the ship never had mines.

Ships of Class:
  • Delfinul

Requinul Class
Produced: 1
Planned: 1
The Requinul Class is the next submarine class built by Romania consisting of a single ship.

1940 Submarine Hull
  • Torpedo I - (450mm) - (533mm)
  • Engine II - (2,000hp)
  • nothing
  • Snorkel
  • nothing

Ships of Class:
  • Requinul

Marsuinul Class
Produced: 1
Planned: 1
The Marsuinul Class is the last WW2 submarine produced by Romania.
Design for the Class:

1940 Submarine Hull
  • Torpedo I - (450mm) - (533mm)
  • Engine II - (2,000hp)
  • nothing
  • Snorkel
  • Mines

Ships of Class:
  • Marsuinul
Great Romania What-If designs
This list consists of made up classes by me for a what-if scenario where Romania started to build up a larger fleet.

Constanta Class
The Constanta Class of battleships is my what-if scenario battleship class of Greater Romania. The class would consist of 1-3 ships based primarily from the Italian Littorio Class.
Design for the Class:

1940 Battleship Hull
  • Heavy Battery II (305mm)
  • Anti-Air III (37mm)
  • Fire Control - Your Choice
  • Radar/Sonar - Your Choice
  • Engine II (90,000hp)
  • Secondaries II (120mm)
  • Battleship Armour I (200mm)
  • Heavy Battery II (305mm)
  • Heavy Battery II (305mm)
  • Anti-Air III (37mm)
  • Anti-Air II (20mm)
  • Floatplane

Ships of Class:
  • Constanta
  • Tirgu Mures
  • Cluj Napoca

Elisabeta Class
The Elisabeta Class of Heavy Cruiser is my what-if scenario Heavy Cruiser class of Greater Romania. The class would consist of 1-4 ships based primarily from the Italian WW2 Heavy Cruiser Classes however with mines also as Romania had put mines on almost all their classes of ship.
Design for the Class:

1940 Cruiser Hull
  • Medium Battery III (203mm)
  • Anti-Air IV (40mm)
  • Fire Control - Your Choice
  • Radar/Sonar - Your Choice
  • Engine III (80,000hp)
  • Secondaries II (120mm)
  • Cruiser Armour II (100mm)
  • Anti-Air IV (40mm)
  • Torpedo III (533mm)
  • Medium Battery II (190mm)
  • Mines
  • Floatplane

Ships of Class:
  • Elisabeta
  • Timosoara
  • Arad
  • Oradea

Baia Mare Class
The Baia Mare Class of Light Cruiser is my what-if scenario Light Cruiser class of Greater Romania. The class would consist of 1-4 ships based primarily from the Italian WW2 Light Cruiser Classes however with mines also as Romania had put mines on almost all their classes of ship.
Design for the Class:

1940 Cruiser Hull
  • Light Cruiser Battery I (145mm)
  • Anti-Air III (37mm)
  • Fire Control - Your Choice
  • Radar/Sonar - Your Choice
  • Engine II (70,000hp)
  • none
  • none
  • Anti-Air II (20mm)
  • Torpedo III (533mm)
  • Light Battery II (120mm)
  • Light Battery II (120mm)
  • Mines

Ships of Class:
  • Baia Mare
  • Sighetu Marmatiei
  • Bistrita
  • Reghin

Vice-Amiral Rosca Class
The Vice-Amiral Rosca Class of Destroyers is my what-if scenario destroyer class of Greater Romania. The class would consist of 7-9 ships based primarily from the later Italian WW2 destroyer Classes however with mines also as Romania had put mines on almost all their classes of ship.
Design for the Class:

1940 Destroyer Hull
  • Light Battery II (120mm)
  • Anti-Air III (37mm)
  • Fire Control - Your Choice
  • Radar/Sonar - Your Choice
  • Torpedo III (533mm)
  • Engine II (52,000hp)
  • Anti-Air II (20mm)
  • Depth Charge
  • Mines

Ships of Class:
  • Vice-Amiral Rosca
  • Amiral Barbuneanu
  • Contraamiral Sebastian
  • Contraamiral Macellariu
  • Zborul
  • Pescarusul
  • Lastunul
  • Vifor (named after destroyer of the Marasati Class)
  • Viscul (named after destroyer of the Marasati Class)

Baracuda Class
The Baracuda Class of Submarines is my what-if scenario Submarine class of Greater Romania. The class would consist of 5-10 ships based primarily from the German WW2 Submarines Classes however with mines also as Romania had put mines on almost all their classes of ship.
Design for the Class:

1940 Submarine Hull
  • Torpedo II (533mm)
  • Engine III (3,000hp)
  • none
  • Snorkel
  • Mines

Ships of Class:
  • Baracuda
  • Narval
  • Nautilus
  • Somonul
  • Peste-Spada
  • Cambula
  • Macrou
  • Leu de Mare
  • Ancheta
  • Ansoa
Other:
If I have missed any ship classes out please do comment.

Other Guides:
Allies:
France
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Axis:
Germany
Italy

Commitern:
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3 Comments
minianimejesus 18 May, 2022 @ 5:52am 
thanks fr
skAzr^^ 18 Nov, 2021 @ 11:03am 
where did you find the information??
SireJaxs 14 Nov, 2021 @ 7:29am 
Oh dang I thought this was a joke guide and not a serious one, good job. :guardian::goldbars: