[1] Its main warships amounted to one protected cruiser, Elisabeta, one armed brig, Mircea, and three Smeul-class torpedo boats.

[2] Other important vessels included the sea-going gunboat Grivița[3] and the Romanian Navy's sole proper minelayer, Alexandru cel Bun.

[9] On 16 April 1917, Smeul departed from Chilia for Ismail, carrying materials, correspondence, a few evacuees, and three French officers commanding the infantry troops at Sulina.

She capsized and sank in the Stari-Stambul distributary during a storm with the loss of 18 of her crew, including the French officers present on board.

[11][12] This incident has been incorrectly attributed to mines laid by the Ottoman cruiser Midilli in several English language sources, possibly as a result of wartime propaganda by the Central Powers.

[4] On 22 September 1917, Romania achieved its greatest naval success of the war, when the Austro-Hungarian river monitor SMS Inn struck a Romanian mine and sank near Brăila.