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ELIZABETA. Monitor. Built by Armstrong Whitworth for the Romanian Navy. Yard No 517. Keel laid 17th May 1887. Launched on 29th December 1887. Final Trials on the 19th September 1888. Displacement 1325tn. L73.15m. B10m. Dr3.66m. Waterline length 67.67m. Powered by two sets of VTE steam engines by Hawthorn Leslie. 3000ihp. 16.5kn. Maximum speed 18.3kn. at 4271ihp. Bunker capacity 250tn. normal 322tn. Maximum. Barque rigged.
She was deliver:ed without any armament. Crew of 140. Armament was fitted in Galataz between 1888/89 and consisted of Four 5.9" 35cal. Krupp BL. Four 6pdr. QF. Two 37mm QF. Two machine guns and Four 14"TT. One bow, One stern and two broadside
Romania 1931. 16Le. SG 1207 (LB30/107)
NOTE. Listed in Gibbons "Collect Ships on Stamps" as ARDEAL
- cannot find any trace of a ship with this name. (Broadley)

The ELISABETH or also given ELIZABETH was not a monitor but a cruiser.

She was an old fashion designed ship with still her guns on the broadside.
Barque rigged.
When commissioned her primary function was to train stokers and technicians.
Her early years in service were mostly spent in the Black Sea. Made also some cruises in the Mediterranean.
1895 Took part in the opening ceremonies of the Kiel Canal in Germany, thereafter she visited Sweden.
1904/05 underwent major repairs, her barque rig reduced to two poles masts, and some armament was changed.
During World War I all her guns and torpedo tubes were removed and she was used as a guard ship in the Danube estuary based in Sulina.
After the war harbour support ship for the Naval Academy at Tiglina, then in use as a accommodation ship in Galatz and Sulina.
1926 Scrapped.

Rumania 16le sg1207, scott398. (Wrongly given by Stanley Gibbons Collect Ships on stamps as ARDEAL, there was a ARDEAL a monitor built in 1904 as TEMES and renamed in 1920 ARDEAL.

Rumania 1980/1990/1997/2002 prestamped postcards

Warships for Export Armstrong Warships 1867-1927 by Peter Brook.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NMS_Elisabeta