Navy leaders, its endowment became much diversified by new types of ships, such
as: the destroyers „M” type – „Ma ˘ra ˘s ¸es ¸ti” and „Ma ˘ra ˘s ¸ti”, the destroyers „R” type –
„Regele Ferdinand” (King Ferdinand) and „Regina Maria” (Queen Maria), the first
Romanian submarine, the „Dolphin”, the second Tall Ship Mircea. In 1939, in
Galati, it had also been launched on water the first Romanian military ship – named
„Admiral Murgescu”. Thus, the Romanian Navy has become a modern and balanced force, able to deal with the threats in the Black Sea. In 1936, with the
occasion of the Romanian Navy Day celebration, the Vice Admiral Ion Balanescu,
commander of the Romanian Navy, stated that the Romanian Navy represents a
factor of great importance in the national defence system, having the mission to
protect the waterways as well as the Romanian Merchant Marine and, especially,
the Romanian maritime and river coasts defense (Filip 2011).
On 23rd of February, 1926, it was founded the Maritime Hydrographical Service
(M.H.S.) through the Ministerial Decision No. 126/1898, based upon the provisions
of the Law of the Romanian Navy Organization, and the Art. – Romanian Navy
Operation Rules, issued in 1912. Its headquarters was established in the building of
the Naval School from Constantza (now being the Museum of the Romanian Navy),
under the leadership of Alexandru Stoianovici, in the following organization: the
Hydrography Office, dealing with the maps, instruments, their storage and distribution; the Astronomy Office, dealing with the equipment for time signalization;
the Geophysics Office, dealing with the oceanography, physical oceanography and
meteorology instruments.
Following some shipwrecks occurred on the Romanian coast, respectively
during the winter of 1927–1928, it was studied the question related to the improving
of the navigation security, process to which M.H.S. had attended in the next period.
In January 1928, the Maritime Hydrographical Service had participated to the
rescue action of the ships trapped by ice on the Danube, as a result of the
particularly harsh winter.
Between 1926 and 1940, the Maritime Hydrographical Service had performed
numerous specific actions, out of which the most important were: the performing of
the hydrographical surveys at the mouths of Danube, the prospectings performance
in order to extend the port of Constantza, the publication of the navigation charts at
the scale 1:50,000 for the Romanian littoral area, as well.
In 1930 The Romanian Hydrographic Service organized pilotage services in
Constanta and Sulina, and hydrographic survey in Mangalia and Sfintu Gheorghe
areas, and also, studied the solutions for placement of a new seaport, which in
addition to solving the need for a greater commercial shipping, and to ensure a good
place for a naval base. It was taken back to study the river channel Cernavoda –
Constantza, and the possibility of exit to sea by the St. George Danube arm.
In the interwar period, the gunboat Stihi, transformed as a hydrographic ship
(Fig. 33.9) participated in several hydrographic campaigns, thus resulting complex
data for Romanian ports charts, as well as the places of anchorage along Romanian
coast (Bologa and Papadopol 1997a).
In October 1940 a delegation of the M.H.S. participated in the work of border
delimitation between Romania and Soviet Union at the Chilia Danube arm.
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as: the destroyers „M” type – „Ma ˘ra ˘s ¸es ¸ti” and „Ma ˘ra ˘s ¸ti”, the destroyers „R” type –
„Regele Ferdinand” (King Ferdinand) and „Regina Maria” (Queen Maria), the first
Romanian submarine, the „Dolphin”, the second Tall Ship Mircea. In 1939, in
Galati, it had also been launched on water the first Romanian military ship – named
„Admiral Murgescu”. Thus, the Romanian Navy has become a modern and balanced force, able to deal with the threats in the Black Sea. In 1936, with the
occasion of the Romanian Navy Day celebration, the Vice Admiral Ion Balanescu,
commander of the Romanian Navy, stated that the Romanian Navy represents a
factor of great importance in the national defence system, having the mission to
protect the waterways as well as the Romanian Merchant Marine and, especially,
the Romanian maritime and river coasts defense (Filip 2011).
On 23rd of February, 1926, it was founded the Maritime Hydrographical Service
(M.H.S.) through the Ministerial Decision No. 126/1898, based upon the provisions
of the Law of the Romanian Navy Organization, and the Art. – Romanian Navy
Operation Rules, issued in 1912. Its headquarters was established in the building of
the Naval School from Constantza (now being the Museum of the Romanian Navy),
under the leadership of Alexandru Stoianovici, in the following organization: the
Hydrography Office, dealing with the maps, instruments, their storage and distribution; the Astronomy Office, dealing with the equipment for time signalization;
the Geophysics Office, dealing with the oceanography, physical oceanography and
meteorology instruments.
Following some shipwrecks occurred on the Romanian coast, respectively
during the winter of 1927–1928, it was studied the question related to the improving
of the navigation security, process to which M.H.S. had attended in the next period.
In January 1928, the Maritime Hydrographical Service had participated to the
rescue action of the ships trapped by ice on the Danube, as a result of the
particularly harsh winter.
Between 1926 and 1940, the Maritime Hydrographical Service had performed
numerous specific actions, out of which the most important were: the performing of
the hydrographical surveys at the mouths of Danube, the prospectings performance
in order to extend the port of Constantza, the publication of the navigation charts at
the scale 1:50,000 for the Romanian littoral area, as well.
In 1930 The Romanian Hydrographic Service organized pilotage services in
Constanta and Sulina, and hydrographic survey in Mangalia and Sfintu Gheorghe
areas, and also, studied the solutions for placement of a new seaport, which in
addition to solving the need for a greater commercial shipping, and to ensure a good
place for a naval base. It was taken back to study the river channel Cernavoda –
Constantza, and the possibility of exit to sea by the St. George Danube arm.
In the interwar period, the gunboat Stihi, transformed as a hydrographic ship
(Fig. 33.9) participated in several hydrographic campaigns, thus resulting complex
data for Romanian ports charts, as well as the places of anchorage along Romanian
coast (Bologa and Papadopol 1997a).
In October 1940 a delegation of the M.H.S. participated in the work of border
delimitation between Romania and Soviet Union at the Chilia Danube arm.
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