The Barque Mircea, seen in the Mediterranean the other day. She was motoring as can be seen by the lack of canvas and most likely heading for her home port of Constanta, Romania. Not looking too bad for a 70 year old ship too. Built in 1938 at the famous or notorious Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg, she is the sister ship (among others) of the Nazi Kreigsmarines Gorch Fock built 1933 and taken by the Soviets after WW2, the Soviets even took Mircea for a while after WW2 but returned it to the Romanian Navy.
Source; Wikipedia which doesn’t cite any sources, but I know a few guys from Constanta who were able to tell me about her.
Mircea Homepage in Romanian
Romanian Navy Homepage
Romanian isn’t a far stretch from Italian, and is a Latin language so deciphering the homepages isn’t entirely impossible.
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