Jadran (ship, 1931)
 Sail training ship Jadran 2006
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The Jadran (German: Adria ) is a topsail schooner built in 1931 and the sailing training ship of the Montenegrin (formerly the Yugoslav ) navy. During the Second World War it was first in Italian hands from 1941 and German from 1943, and during this time it was called Marco Polo .
Construction and technical data
The ship was in 1931 in Hamburg on the Stülcken shipyard set for the former Yugoslav Royal Navy under the hull number 669 on Kiel and ran on 25 June 1931 by the stack . The ship is measured at 737 tons and is 60.00 meters long, 8.90 meters wide and has a draft of 4.55 meters. A 480 HP diesel engine with attached propeller is available as an auxiliary drive. The crew consists of up to 61 men, 30 of whom are trainees.
history
Yugoslav Navy
The ship was delivered in Tivat on July 16, 1933 and put into service on August 19, 1933. A ceremonial commissioning celebrated as a state act took place on September 6 in Split , and on June 25, 1934, the ship was assigned to the fleet. The Jadran undertook four training trips in the Mediterranean and three times in the Atlantic by 1939 . With the beginning of the Second World War, the ship was decommissioned.
Second World War
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During the German invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, the ship was in the Bay of Kotor with a minimal crew . There it was confiscated on April 17th by the Italian Navy , which put it into service under the new name Marco Polo and continued to use it as a sailing training ship.
After Italy surrendered in September 1943, the ship fell into German hands, but lay unused - apart from the cannibalization of useful equipment - in Venice until the end of the war . At the end of the war, the barely floatable ship was only used as a bridge over a Venetian canal. According to other information, the Navy continued to use the sailor as a stationary training ship.
Post war fate
After the Second World War, the SFR Yugoslavia demanded the return of the ship, which was then brought to Tivat and, from April 1947 , underwent a general overhaul in the local naval shipyard, today's Porto Montenegro . The work was finished on December 17, 1948, and the Jadran was assigned to the Naval School in Divulje on the west side of the Bay of Split. In 1956/57 and then again ten years later, the ship was again overhauled and modernized in Tivat. In 1989 it was supposed to get another thorough overhaul in the shipyard, but remained laid up in the Bay of Kotor until at least 1997 due to the war between Croatia and Yugoslavia .
The Jadran has been part of the Montenegrin Navy since 2006 and is used as a sailing training ship. During negotiations in 2006 between Serbia and Montenegro on the division of military equipment, the Serbian side did not consider the ship to remain with Serbia for financial reasons as unrealistic. Meanwhile, Croatia made claims on the ship in early 2008 . The last time the sailor was overtaken was in 2013 at the Bijela-Boka Bay shipyard in Montenegro.
literature
- Otmar Schäuffelen, Herbert Böhm: The last great sailing ships , Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-7688-3191-8 .
- Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German Warships 1815-1945, Vol. 5 Auxiliary Ships II: Hospital ships, accommodation ships, training ships, research vehicles , port service vehicles , Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1988, ISBN 3-7637-4804-0 .
- Zvonimir Freivogel: Navy in the Adriatic. Ex-Yugoslav warships flying the German flag , Marine-Arsenal Vol. 40, Podzun-Pallas-Verlag, Wölfersheim-Berstadt 1998, ISBN 3-7909-0640-9 .
Web links
- Tallship-Fan.de , accessed on May 5, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gröner, p. 119f.
- ↑ Schäuffelen, p. 240
- ↑ Freivogel, p. 39
- ↑ Schäuffelen, p. 240, or Freivogel, p. 39
- ↑ Freivogel, p. 39
- ↑ Denis Krnić: Mesić: Crnogorci nam moraju vratiti "Jadran" (Mesić: The Montenegrins have to return the "Jadran" to us) ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Slobodnja Dalmacija, January 9, 2008
- ↑ http://www.tallship-fan.de
