Built as a trainings vessel under yard No 519 by Blohm & Voss yards in Steinwerder near Hamburg for the Romanian Government, managed by the Romanian Navy.
30 April 1938 keel laid down.
22 September 1938 launched as the MIRCEA. She is named after Duke Mircea, which figurehead she carried.
Tonnage 1630 grt, displacement 1,760. Dim. 82.10 x 12.00 x 7.30m. Length on deck 73.70m. length bpp. 62.00m., draught 5.20m.
Barque rigged, sail area 1,748 square meters.
Auxiliary engine MAK diesel, 1,000 hp., speed circa 10 knots.
Accommodation for 40 officers and 50 crew and 120 trainees.
25 January 1939 completed.
April 1939 she sailed to the Black Sea port of Constanta, where after her maiden voyage was in the Mediterranean.
Her career during World War II I could not find, but at the end of the war she was transferred to the Soviet Union in 1944 after the Armistice for a short time, but handed back soon there after.
From January till September 1966 was she overhauled and modernized by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg.
2002 Repaired and modernized by the Braila Shipyard.
2010 In service as a training ship. Takes part in some Tall Ships Races.
Azerbaijan 1996 250m sg350, scott616. 1997 250m sg391, scott?
Bhutan 1986 3n sg681, scott? (Given on the stamp as LIBERTAD, but it is the MIRCEA.)
Rumania 1948 sg1992, scottB393. 1960 35b sg2770, scott1370. 1974 1le55 sg4045, scott2463. 2009 1L sg?, scott?
Uganda 1986 100s sg531, scott?
Romania 2014 75 ani sg?, scott? MS 14.50L sgMS?, scott?
Source: Wikipedia. Great Sailing Ships of the World by Otmar Schauffelen.
http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz
In 2014 Rumania issued two stamps and two Miniature Sheets for the 75th Anniversary of the schoolship MIRCEA, below is given what the Rumanian Post gives on the stamps and sheets.
The Sail Training Ship “Mircea“ has been a genuine ambassador of the Romanian Naval Forces in the world for 75 years, being not only the expression of maritime knowledge, but also a bastion of hardening characters, trust and human solidarity.
Symbol of the Romanian Navy, “Mircea” keeps on its deck the memory of so many generations of sailors, who completed their training here, symbolizing an authentic school of courage, professionalism and manhood.
Marking 75 years since the Training School Ship “Mircea” entered the Romanian Navy service, Romfilatelia joins the anniversary manifestations and introduces into circulation the postage stamps issue The Sail Training Ship “Mircea“, 75 years.
The issue is dedicated to the Sail Training Ship “Mircea”, brig that carried the Romanian tricolour Flag with great honor on the waters of seas and oceans, alongside the name of the great Ruler Mircea the Elder, Wallachia’s unificator to the “Great Sea”.
The stamps of the series, with the face values of leu 1.00 and lei 14.50, illustrate the Sail Training Ship “Mircea“ in a training mission, with all its sails in the wind, and the Maritime Virtue Order, in Officer Degree with Peace Symbol, conferred to the Sail Training Ship “Mircea”, by the Decree No. 304/2014, for the first time in the ship’s existence.
The souvenir sheet of the issue illustrates, in a separate stamp, the image of the Sail Training Ship “Mircea” at the moment it was launched, in the autumn of 1938, leaving the “Blohm und Voss” shipyard in Hamburg. On the label of the souvenir sheet there is a painted wooden ornamental sculpture representing the bust of the Ruler Mircea the Elder.
Its background reproduces an engraving with a vintage image of ships sailing in the area where the Danube flows in the Black Sea, the printed text explaining the motivation for the school ship taking the name of the Ruler.
Togo 2015 900F sg?, scott?
Netherland no value 20g sg?, Scott? (She is on the left the other vessel is the CUAUHTEMOE from Mexico.)
