High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! NMS Elisabeta was a small protected cruiser built by Armstrong for Romania in the 1880s. Serving mainly as a training ship, she represented Romania at the opening of the Kiel Canal in 1895. She helped protect Romanian interests in Constantinople during the First Balkan War in 1912–13, but played no significant part in the Second Balkan War and was disarmed and hulked at the beginning of World War I. Employed as a barracks ship after the war, she was scrapped in 1926.