The French Naval Mission to Romania - The Efforts made for Signing Naval Procurement Contracts at the End of World War I
The French Naval Mission to Romania - The Efforts made for Signing Naval Procurement Contracts at the End of World War I

Summary/Abstract: At the end of World War I, the Romanian Army was experiencing the results of three years of military conflict on its own territory and was also entering into a period of reconstruction. One of its components, the Navy, was also coming to the point of realisation that the new, greater Romania was inevitably going to put more pressure on its Black Sea Division, especially if we take into consideration that the union with Basarabia meant it had to defend a much larger coast. Therefore, the Romanian Naval Inspectorate sought new ways to increase its naval forces, mostly by using the experience of foreign naval officers accredited in Romania. The most active ones were the representatives of the French Naval Mission. They would go on to propose a large array of different ship types for the Romanian Navy.

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