An item reported that at Galatz on 3 October in the presence of the king four monitors and 8 so-called vedette boats were launched. The ships were built at Trieste, dissembled and transported to Galatz. The monitors had a displacement of 600 ton and armed with 3-12cm guns in turrets while the vedette boats were armed with 1-3,7cm gun, 1 machine gun and 4 torpedoes.