In 1909 the Government release 1 million BGN for establishment of the   maritime school in the city of Varna.  In 1913 the Naval Base become a headquarter of the Bulgarian Naval Fleet, from where all the WW1 military actions were commanded. The school was moved at today’s location later on.

The Museum of Naval Education contains evidence and documents/pictures of the history of education of naval cadres in the school and outside the country, incl. for the time of WWI,  i.e. :

1) in Livorno, Italy  - 5 marines and 1 person from the army who cancel their education  and come back to Bulgaria after Italy entering into the WW1 on 24.05.2015;

2) in Murvik, Germany in 2016  - 6 trainees, incl. 4 persons coming from the Machine School. 3 of them continued  to operate into the  underwater sailing – 2 of them was killed in 1918 in Irish sea One of the cadets who trained in Germany – Preslav Lyapchev - French alumnus from Brest and a nephew of the Prime-Minister Lyapchev at that time,  have died with his instructor during a flight training.

3) Some of Varna School’s cadets continued  their training in Russia in the Maritime Engineering School until 1914. One of them  Koycho Koychev  graduated from the Maritime Engineering School was killed afterword by a Russian submarine. Another cadet who has trained in  the  Mining artillery class at the  Maritime Engineering School in 1914  has  become an admiral.

There are an exposition of Naval Academy Biggest,  issued in 1916 by Dimitar Maistorov and  given to cadets, most of which continue their education in Germany.

Also, there are some original documents for  Dimitar Dobrev – Principal of the Academy in 1908. He graduated from Mine Officer Class in Rijeka, Croatia. He took part in Russian- Japanese War but due to the passed malaria disease he quited from the Navy. As a reserve officer,  during the Balkan War he guided the attacks against the Turkish Ship Hamidie and immersed  it.

There are also documents and list of  people – Naval Academy  graduates, who passed training in other countries  before and during the WW1 and took part in the war and post-war activities for protection of sea borders,  cleaning the Black Sea coast of Russian mines, along with Turkish and English sailors, and others.