Germany and Romania possessed not a competitive naval force. The Romanian navy consisted of 2 modern destroyers of 1.850 tons, 2 former Italian destroyers of 1.400 ton and a modern submarine of 650 ton. Further more was a large number of auxiliary vessels, gunboats, minelayers etc. available mainly elder ships. This navy was by the outbreak of the war joined by some German auxiliary ships and the so-called Danube flotilla and later were even German and Italian motor torpedo boats brought to the Black Sea. The German and Romanian navy authorities could nothing do more than protecting the Romanian coastal waters. The Italian and Romanian motor torpedo boats had done good work during the siege of Sebastopol.
