[3] In July 1905, the shipyard housed the Russian battleship Potemkin and refloated her after she was half scuttled by her mutinous crew.

[4][5] The first ship ever constructed by the shipyard and launched to sea on May 31, 1936 was a 12 m (39 ft) long yacht named Crai Nou,[3] designed and built by Alexandru Theodoru a student at the Naval School in Constanța and graduate of the French Naval School.

[6] During World War II, the shipyard provided repair and maintenance to the Italian flotilla of midget submarines operating in the Black Sea.

[7] Together with the Galați shipyard, it also rebuilt, maintained and repaired numerous German R-boats during the War.

[6] In the 114 years of existence the Constanța Shipyard constructed 432 ships, 365 for Romanian shipping companies and 67 for shipping companies from Egypt, Russia, Greece, Japan, Hong Kong, Liechtenstein, Czech Republic, South Africa, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Norway, France, Panama and Netherlands, which have a total of 4,128,143 DWT.