NMS Marsuinul

Launching of the Marsuinul
History
Romania
Name	Marsuinul
Builder	Galați shipyard, Romania
Laid down	1938
Launched	4 May 1941
Commissioned	May 1943
Out of service	1944
Fate	Captured by the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
Name	TS-2 (Cyrillic: ТС-2)
Commissioned	20 October 1944
Fate	Sunk by internal explosion 20 February 1945
General characteristics
Displacement	620 tons (surfaced)
Length	58 m (190 ft 3 in)
Beam	5.6 m (18 ft 4 in)
Draft	3.6 m (11 ft 10 in)
Propulsion	2 MAN diesel engines, 2 electric motors, 2 shafts
Speed	16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) surfaced 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) submerged
Range	8,000 nmi (15,000 km; 9,200 mi)
Test depth	110 m (360 ft 11 in)
Complement	45
Armament	1 x 105 mm SK C/32 naval gun 1 x 37 mm SK C/30 AA gun 6 × 533 mm torpedo tubes

NMS Marsuinul (The Porpoise) was a submarine of the Romanian Navy, one of the few warships built in Romania during the Second World War. She was the largest Romanian-built submarine and the most powerful and modern Axis submarine in the Black Sea.