battle, interwar and Second World War
Raid on Constanța
Raid on Constanța was a battle fought in 1941 at Constanța, in what is now Romania. It was part of Black Sea Campaigns. The recorded result: Axis victory.
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Where it sits in Black Sea Campaigns
Record
| Date | 1941 (year precision) | |
|---|---|---|
| Place | Constanța, Romania 44.173N, 28.638E | |
| Kind | Battle, interwar and Second World War | |
| Strength | 2 destroyers; 1 minelayer; 1 anti-aircraft battery; 2 coastal artillery batteries | 1 cruiser; 2 destroyer leaders; 2 destroyers; unknown number of bombers |
| Casualties and losses | Constanța port facilities damaged | 1 cruiser damaged; 1 destroyer leader sunk; 9 bombers destroyed; 268+ killed; 69 captured |
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Nearest engagements
- Action of 9 July 1941 1941, 40 km S
- Battle of Adamclisi AD 101, 56 km W
- Kavarna massacre 1877, 86 km S
- Battle of Cape Kaliakra 1791, 89 km S
- Battle of Dobrich 1916, 93 km SW
In the same war
- After: Action of 9 July 1941 9 July 1941
- All 5 engagements of Black Sea Campaigns
Elsewhere in 1941
- Operation Barbarossa Lithuania
- Attack on Pearl Harbor United States
- Siege of Leningrad Soviet Union
- Battle of Moscow Soviet Union
- Battle of Crete Greece
Raid on Constanța is one of 4,429 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 135 in present-day Romania.
Sources
Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q29025221, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Raid on Constanța, revision 1370705695, read 2026-11-15, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.