An item reported that the Romanian navy was to be strenghtened with a small armored chaloupe to be built abroad.(1) The actual Romanian Danube flotilla consisted of 5 steam warships and three gun- and torpedo boats.
Note
1. The protected cruiser Elisabetha was ordered in May 1887, laid down by Armstrong, Elswick, England with yard number 517 on 17 May 1887, launched on 29 December 1887, completed in September 1888, commissioned in October 1888, out of service in 1920 and broken up in the 1930s?
Source
Armee- und Marine-Zeitung dated 13 March 1889 No. 271, p. 5.
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