Naval operations in Romanian-occupied Soviet waters
Naval operations in Romanian-occupied Soviet waters | |||||||
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Part of the Black Sea campaigns (1941-1944) | |||||||
![]() Territories (re)acquired by Romania during Operation Barbarossa | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Filipp Oktyabrskiy | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
Military vessels: 3 destroyers 5 gunboats 2 minelayers 2 motor torpedo boats |
Military vessels: 6 submarines 2 motor gunboats | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Military vessels: 2 motor torpedo boats |
Military vessels: 4 submarines sunk 2 submarines damaged 2 motor gunboats sunk |
Between 1941 and 1944, Romania held control over much of the Ukrainian Black Sea coast East of the Crimea. This was acquired during
Actions in Bessarabian waters
On 17 December 1941, the
On 1 October 1942, near the Burnas Lagoon, the Soviet M-class submarine M-118 attacked and sank the German transport ship Salzburg. After attacking, the submarine was located by a German BV 138C flying boat, and the Romanian gunboats Sublocotenent Ghiculescu and Stihi Eugen were sent to the scene. The two Romanian warships attacked the submarine with depth charges, sinking her with all hands.[7][8][9]
On 14 October 1942, the Soviet submarine M-32 unsuccessfully attacked the Romanian destroyer Regele Ferdinand near the Burnas Lagoon, the submarine being subsequently depth charged and damaged by the Romanian torpedo boat Smeul.[10][11]
Actions in Transnistrian waters
On 9 November 1941, the Romanian motor torpedo boats Viforul and Vijelia were sunk near Odessa by Soviet mines.[12]
On 13 June 1942, the Soviet submarine A-5 was damaged by Romanian depth charges near
On 24 June 1942, the Romanian minelayer
Also sunk by the Romanian-laid mines near Odessa were the motor gunboats YA-26 and YA-27 on 18 April 1944,
Gallery
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The Romanian minelayer Amiral Murgescu
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The Romanian destroyer Regele Ferdinand
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Soviet M-class submarine
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The Romanian front in August 1944
References
- ^ Antony Preston, Warship 2001-2002, pp. 77
- ^ Antony Preston, Warship 2001-2002, pp. 80
- ^ Nicolae Koslinski, Raymond Stănescu, Marina română in al doilea război mondial: 1941-1942, Făt-Frumos, 1996, pp. 274-275
- ^ Jipa Rotaru, Ioan Damaschin, Glorie și dramă: Marina Regală Română, 1940-1945, p. 67 (in Romanian)
- ^ Donald A Bertke, Gordon Smith, Don Kindell, World War II Sea War, Volume 5: Air Raid Pearl Harbor. This Is Not a Drill, p. 63
- ^ Paul E. Fontenoy, Submarines: an illustrated history of their impact, ABC-CLIO, 31 March 2017, p. 275
- ^ Antony Preston, Warship 2001-2002, pp. 79-80
- ^ Donald A Bertke, Gordon Smith, Don Kindell, World War II Sea War, Volume 7: The Allies Strike Back p. 179
- ^ Mikhail Monakov, Jurgen Rohwer, Stalin's Ocean-going Fleet: Soviet Naval Strategy and Shipbuilding Programs 1935-1953, p. 266
- ^ Donald A Bertke, Gordon Smith, Don Kindell, World War II Sea War, Volume 7: The Allies Strike Back, p. 179
- ^ Antony Preston, Warship 2001-2002, pp. 79-80
- ^ Donald A Bertke, Gordon Smith, Don Kindell, World War II Sea War, Volume 4: Germany Sends Russia to the Allies, p. 390
- ^ Donald A Bertke, Gordon Smith, Don Kindell, World War II Sea War, Vol 6: The Allies Halt the Axis Advance, Bertke Publications, 2014, p. 267
- ^ Donald A. Bertke, Gordon Smith, Don Kindell World War II Sea War, Volume 6: The Allies Halt the Axis Advance, p. 268
- ^ Mikhail Monakov, Jurgen Rohwer, Stalin's Ocean-going Fleet: Soviet Naval Strategy and Shipbuilding Programs 1935–1953, Routledge Publishing, 2012, p. 266
- ^ Donald A. Bertke, Gordon Smith, Don Kindell World War II Sea War, Volume 6: The Allies Halt the Axis Advance, Bertke Publications, 2014, p. 268
- ^ Nicolae Koslinski, Raymond Stănescu, Marina română in al doilea război mondial: 1944–1945, p. 365 (in Romanian)