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      Elisabeta      

Country: Romania.
Class, [Type]: Elisabeta, [PC].

Builder: Armstrong, Mitchell & Co, U.K.
Launch date: 1888.
Commission date: October 1888.
Decommission date: 1915.

Displacement ( tons ): 1350 full load.
Dimensions ( metres ): 73 x 10,2 x 3,8.
Main machinery:  2 x triple expansion steam engines ( 2500 hp ).
Speed ( knots ): 18.
Complement: 170.

Guns: 4 x 1 150mm Krupp, 4 x 1 57mm Nordenfelt, 4 x 1 37mm Hotchkiss.
Torpedoes: 4 x 1 356mm.

Comment: The ship is named in honor of the first Queen of Romania. Visiting Sevastopol occurred during the research campaign cruiser in the Black Sea. Head of the expedition, which lasted 144 days, was Gregory Antipas. During this time, the cruiser came in Sulina, Balchik, Constantinople, Yambol, Sinop, Trabzon, Yalta, Sevastopol and Odessa.

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