NMS Marsuinul (The Porpoise) was a submarine of the Romanian Navy, one of the few warships built in Romania during the Second World War. She was the largest...

were built at the Galați shipyard in Eastern Romania – NMS Rechinul ("Shark") and NMS Marsuinul ("Porpoise"). Căpitan (USN rank – lieutenant) Constantin...

was the most effective Romanian Navy warship of the Second World War. Marsuinul was designed by NV Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw in the Hague, her...

sizable warships, such as the minelayer NMS Amiral Murgescu and the submarines NMS Rechinul and NMS Marsuinul. Hundreds of originally-designed Romanian...

tractor known as T-1. Warships built include the submarines NMS Rechinul and NMS Marsuinul, a class of 4 minesweepers, 6 Dutch-designed torpedo boats and...

starting on 15 June 1944 and lasting 45 days. Rechinul was very similar to NMS Marsuinul (the porpoise). The two submarines had a lot in common, and were built...

Unison) V-4 (HMS Ursula) TS-1 (ex-Romanian NMS Rechinul) TS-2 (ex-Romanian NMS Marsuinul) TS-3 (ex-Romanian NMS Delfinul) CB-class (ex-Italian, ex-Romanian)...

strategic significance, and two submarines (NMS Rechinul and NMS Marsuinul) and one minelaying destroyer escort (NMS Amiral Murgescu) were built there. Initially...

targets. The Romanian Navy employed the newly built submarines NMS Marsuinul and NMS Rechinul but without scoring success. It also inherited five CB-class...

launched in May 1941 and commissioned in May 1943. The first one was Marsuinul, a 620-ton attack submarine armed with one 105 mm deck gun, one 37 mm...

The launching of Marsuinul...

plus the converted torpedo boats Năluca and Smeul). Two more submarines, Marsuinul and Rechinul, were launched a short while prior to Romania's entry into...

remainder of the war. The modern Romanian-built submarines Rechinul and Marsuinul were completed in 1942 but could not begin their operations until 1944...