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During sweeping actions mines were discovered outside the mined areas themselves.
On July 24, tug CERNA jumped on a mine at mile 69, and sank immediately. On 25, tug
BICAZ was hit by a mine at mile 61.5 and grounded and tug HELIDOU sank at mile
42.5. On the same day, on Chilia Canal at km 112, two tugs, AMURG and MUREŞ, had
broken into each other xlii .
As a consequence of liberation of Basarabia, the Romanian seaside widened up to
Limanul Nistrului, the Tactical Group Liman was established, under the command of
Captain Nicolae Bardescu. The group was subordinated to the Danube Flotilla. 17th
Marines Battalion was deployed along the coast of Basarabia with a fixed maritime
observation positions at Zolocani, Burnas and Budochi. To this group were made
gradually available, boats, barges, troops transport ships and river gunboats xliii .
The next stage was to continue, with high intensity, the troops, ammunition and
supplies transportation along the Maritime Danube. All those tasks were performed
superbly under the Danube Flotilla protection.
i Joannès Tramond, André Reussner, Éléments d’ histoire maritime et coloniale contemporaine,
(1815-1914), Société d’Éditions Géographiques, Maritime et Coloniales, Paris, 1932, pp. 101-110.
ii Lt.Cdor Ion Bălănescu, Răsboiul naval pe înŃelesul tuturor, Bucureşti, 1915, pp. 48-49.
iii X X X, Monitorul Oficial, nr. 42 din 27 mai-8 iunie 1898, p. 1466.
iv C.A. Nicolae Negrescu, Rolul marinei în războiul pentru întregirea neamului şi recompensa
finală, Bucureşti, 1920, p. 162.
v
X X X, Revista marinei, nr.4/1929, pp. 3-5.
vi
X X X, Calendarul maritim /1914, pp. 256-257.
vii
Arh. M.Ap.N. fond DirecŃia V marină, dosar 78/1906-1907, fila 521.
viii
Arh. M.Ap.N. fond DirecŃia V marină, dosar 74/1908-1911, fila 238.
ix
Lt.Cdor Ion Bălănescu, op. cit., pp. 20-21.
x
X X X, Registrul matricol al monitorului ALEXANDRU LAHOVARI.
xi
X X X, Marea Noastră nr. 7-8/1938, p. 264.
xii
George Petre, Ion Bitoleanu, TradiŃii navale româneşti, Editura Militară, Bucureşti, 1991, p.117.
xiii
ibidem, pp. 190-206.
xiv
ibidem, pp. 209-211.
xv
Arh. M.Ap.N., fond C.M.M., dosar 287/1919, fila 469.
xvi
Georgeta Borandă, Istoricul monitoarelor româneşti, în Momente din istoria Marinei Române –
Lucrări de cercetare, 1984, fila 34.
xvii George Petre, Ion Bitoleanu, op. cit., p. 236.
xviii Jipa Rotaru, Ioan Damaschin, Glorie şi dramă. Marina Regală Română 1940-1945, Editura
“Ion Cristoiu”, Bucureşti, 2000, p. 26.
xix ibidem, p. 27.
xx ibidem.
xxi ibidem.
xxii ibidem, pp. 27-28.
xxiii ibidem.
xxiv ibidem, pp. 29-31.
xxv Dorin Mara, Marina Regală a României în cel de Al Doilea Război Mondial, Editura
Economică, Bucureşti, 2000, p. 30.
xxvi
ibidem, p. 29.
xxvii
ibidem.
xxviii
Jipa Rotaru, Ioan Damaschin, op. cit., pp. 53-54.
xxix
Dorin Mara, op. cit., pp. 30-31.