Romanian government ordered building of several warships in 1894

An item reported that the Romanian government supposedly should order at the German shipyard Schichau at Elbing the building of 4 smaller gunboats and 4 torpedo boats. In England were the torpedo boats Monteano, Olteano and Smeo under construction. On behalf of the Prut river shipping was the paddle steamship Prutul with a displacement of 23 tons bought.

Source

Mittheilungen aus dem Gebiete des Seewesens,volume XXII, Pola 1894, p. 244.