NMS Delfinul

NMS Delfinul in June 1936
History
Romania
Name	NMS Delfinul
Namesake	dolphin
Builder	Italian naval base and shipyard, Fiume
Laid down	1927
Launched	1930
Completed	1931
Commissioned	1936
Out of service	1944
Refit	Galați shipyard, starting late 1942
Reinstated	1951
Fate	Stricken 1957
Soviet Union
Name	TS-3
Commissioned	1944
Decommissioned	1945
Fate	Returned to Romania in 1951
General characteristics
Displacement	Surfaced: 650 long tons Submerged: 900 long tons
Length	68 m (223 ft)
Beam	5.9 m (19 ft)
Draught	3.6 m (12 ft)
Propulsion	2 Sulzer diesel engines, 2 electric motors, 2 shafts
Speed	Surfaced: 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) Submerged: 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph)
Range	2,000 nautical miles (3,704 km; 2,302 mi)
Complement	55
Armament	1 × 102 mm Bofors naval gun 1 x 13 mm twin machine gun 8 x 533 mm torpedo tubes (4 bow and 4 stern)

NMS Delfinul (The Dolphin) was a Romanian submarine that served in the Black Sea during the Second World War. It was the first submarine of the Romanian Navy, built in Italy under Romanian supervision.^[1]