Ossero (ship)

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Ship data
flag Austria-HungaryAustria-Hungary (naval war flag) Austria-Hungary Yugoslavia Italy Yugoslavia Croatia
Yugoslavia Kingdom 1918Kingdom of Yugoslavia 
ItalyItaly (naval war flag) 
YugoslaviaYugoslavia 
CroatiaCroatia 
other ship names
  • Dalmat
  • Orjen
  • Istranka
  • Fata
Ship type Sailing yacht
Launch 1896
Ship dimensions and crew
length
42.2 m ( Lüa )
width 6.1 m
Draft Max. 3.5 m
displacement 268 t
Machine system
machine Steam engine
Machine
performance 		500 hp (368 kW)
Top
speed 		13 kn (24 km / h)
Rigging and rigging
Rigging Galeas
Number of masts 2

The Ossero is a former Austro-Hungarian state yacht .

history

The ship was built in Trieste in 1896 for Archduke Karl Stephan of Austria . At that time the ship was 42.20 meters long, 6.10 meters wide and 3.50 meters deep. The slim fuselage is made of riveted metal.

Among other things, the client was a patron of yachting on the Dalmatian coast and a regular patron of the “international sports weeks” in Abbazia . In the year of commissioning, he himself took part with the yacht, which was assigned to the kuk yacht squadron founded in 1891.

In 1899 it was acquired by the Austro-Hungarian Navy and was available to the Dalmatian governors for their official affairs. The ship was named Dalmat and its home port was Zadar . After the assassination of the heir to the throne Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in June 1914, the Dalmat had the task of transferring the remains of the heir to the throne from the port in Metković on the Neretva estuary to the Viribus Unitis . With the outbreak of the First World War , the ship was moved to the Bay of Kotor. From 1916 it served the commanders of the imperial and royal submarine fleet.

After the First World War it came to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and was initially classified as a merchant ship. Later, under the new name of Vila , it served as a yacht of the Yugoslav Admiralty.

During the Second World War , the ship was confiscated by Italy and operated as a gunboat Fata until the end of the war.

After the end of the war she sailed again under the Yugoslav flag as Orjen and later as Istranka for the Yugoslav Navy. After retirement from military service, the ship was privately owned from 1971, including as a floating restaurant in Split. During this time, the ossero's condition deteriorated. Sales negotiations failed. In 1989 the ship sank during the Yugoslav war in the former scrapping yard of the company "Brodospas", was lifted again by Gianfranco Cozzi, an Italian citizen. From 2003, partial repairs were carried out at a shipyard on the island of Vranjic near Split , and in 2005 the ship was declared a cultural heritage . During the restoration phase, Mr. Cozzi died, the family had no further interest in the ship, so work was stopped. Due to the deteriorating condition, the Ossero sank again.

In the meantime, an association in cooperation with the Croatian Naval Museum is trying to preserve the ossero . Together with the two Danube monitors Leitha and Bodrog, it is one of the three last existing ships of the Austro-Hungarian Navy.

literature

  • Rene Greger: Austro-Hungarian Warships of World War I . Littlehampton Book Services, 1976, ISBN 0-7110-0623-7 (English).
  • Horst F. Mayer, Dieter Winkler: When Austria discovered the world . Expeditions and missions of the Kriegsmarine. Verlag der Österreichische Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-7046-0181-0 .
  • Wladimir Aichelburg: Register of the k. (U.) K. Warships . from Abbondanza to Zrinyi. NWV, Neuer Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-7083-0052-1 .
  • Stanko Piplovic: Fate of the Kaiserjacht Ossero. (PDF; 253 kB) Retrieved April 5, 2013 .

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