Battle of Cape Burnas

Battle of Cape Burnas
	Part of the Black Sea Campaigns of the Eastern Front of World War II
	; Romanian gunboat Stihi Eugen
Date	1 October 1942
Location	Cape Burnas, Romania
Result	Soviet submarine sank
Belligerents
Romania; Germany	Soviet Union
Strength
2 gunboats; 1 transport ship; 1 flying boat	1 submarine
Casualties and losses
1 transport ship sunk	1 submarine sunk; 16-19 killed; 2,000 Soviet POWs killed aboard the sunken German ship

The Battle of Cape Burnas was a naval engagement between the Soviet and Romanian navies near the Burnas Lagoon in October 1942.

On 1 October 1942, the Soviet M-class submarine M-118 attacked and sank the German transport ship Salzburg, which was carrying on board 2,000 Soviet prisoners of war. After attacking, the submarine was located by a German BV 138C flying boat, and the Romanian gunboats Sublocotenent Ghiculescu and Stihi Eugen were sent to the scene. The two Romanian warships attacked the Soviet submarine with depth-charges, sinking her with all hands.^[1]^[2]^[3]

^ Antony Preston, Warship 2001-2002, p. 79
^ Donald A Bertke, Gordon Smith, Don Kindell, World War II Sea War, Vol 7: The Allies Strike Back p. 179
^ Mikhail Monakov, Jurgen Rohwer, Stalin's Ocean-going Fleet: Soviet Naval Strategy and Shipbuilding Programs 1935-1953, p. 266

[1] Antony Preston, Warship 2001-2002, p. 79

[2] Donald A Bertke, Gordon Smith, Don Kindell, World War II Sea War, Vol 7: The Allies Strike Back p. 179

[3] Mikhail Monakov, Jurgen Rohwer, Stalin's Ocean-going Fleet: Soviet Naval Strategy and Shipbuilding Programs 1935-1953, p. 266

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