Jadran (ship)

Sail training ship Jadran 2006

Marco Polo

The Jadran ( German: Adriatic Sea ) is a sailing school ship of the Montenegrin (formerly Yugoslav ) Navy.

History

Yugoslav Navy

The Barquentine ( Barkentine ) was built in Hamburg on the Stülcken shipyard for the former Royal Yugoslav Navy and ran on June 25, 1931 by stack. The ship was delivered on 16 July 1933, Tivat and put into service on 19 August 1933. A celebrated as a state ceremony ceremonial commissioning took place on 6 September in Split, and the ship of the fleet was assigned on June 25, 1934. The Jadran undertook in the following training cruises in the Mediterranean and three times also in the Atlantic.

World War II

With the German invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941 the ship was at a minimum crew in the Bay of Kotor. There it was captured on April 17 by the Italian Navy, which placed it under the new name Marco Polo in service. After the capitulation of Italy in September 1943, the ship fell into German hands, however, was not used - apart from the exploitation of useful equipment - until the war ended in Venice. When the war ended, the only still served barely floating ship as a bridge over a Venetian canal.

Postwar fate

Nevertheless, the SFR Yugoslavia demanded the return of the ship that brought then to Tivat and from April 1947 in the local Naval Shipyard, today Porto Montenegro, was overhauled. The work was completed on 17 December 1948 and the Jadran was assigned to the Naval Academy in Divulje on the west side of the bay of Split. 1956/57, and then again ten years later, the ship was again overhauled and modernized in Tivat.

Today, the Jadran is part of the Montenegrin Navy. In negotiations in 2006 between Serbia and Montenegro on the division of military equipment deemed to remain the Serbian side of the ship in Serbia for financial reasons as not realistic. Meanwhile, rose early 2008 Croatia claims to the ship.