Jadran (training ship)
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Jadran is a sailing ship for basic naval training built for the Yugoslav Royal Navy and currently in Montenegrin Navy service. A three-mast topsail schooner or barquentine with an auxiliary engine, Jadran was built in Hamburg, Germany between 1930 and 1933, and commissioned on 19 August 1933. Prior to World War II she completed seven long training cruises with trainees from the Yugoslav Naval Academy, including one to North America. As Yugoslavia was neutral at the outbreak of World War II, Jadran was able to conduct short cruises in the Adriatic Sea. In April 1941, Yugoslavia was invaded by the Axis powers, and Jadran was captured and renamed Marco Polo by the Italian Navy. She continued to be used as a training ship in the Adriatic, operating out of the Istrian port of Pola, and was featured in an Italian propaganda film.
Jadran in Tivat harbour | |
History | |
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Kingdom of Yugoslavia | |
Name | Jadran |
Namesake | Adriatic Sea |
Ordered | 4 September 1930 |
Builder | H. C. Stülcken Sohn, Hamburg |
Cost | 8,407,030 dinars |
Laid down | 1930 |
Launched | 25 June 1931 |
Commissioned | 19 August 1933 |
Fate | Captured by Italians in April 1941 |
Kingdom of Italy | |
Name | Marco Polo |
Namesake | Marco Polo |
Acquired | 1941 |
Fate | Captured by Nazi Germany in September 1943 |
Nazi Germany | |
Acquired | September 1943 |
Commissioned | 1944 |
Out of service | 1945 |
Fate | Returned to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
SFR Yugoslavia | |
Commissioned | 1947 |
Out of service | 1992 |
Fate | Passed to FRY Navy |
FR Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro | |
Commissioned | 1992 |
Out of service | 2006 |
Fate | Passed to Montenegrin Navy |
Montenegro | |
Owner | Montenegrin Navy |
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Status | In active service |
General characteristics | |
Type | Topsail schooner or Barquentine |
Displacement | 720 long tons (730 t) |
Length | 60 m (196 ft 10 in) (oa) |
Beam | 8.90 m (29 ft 2 in) |
Height | 39.1 m (128 ft 3 in) |
Draught | 4.05 m (13 ft 3 in) |
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Range |
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Crew | 156 |
During the Italian capitulation in September 1943 she was captured by the Germans while being refitted in Venice. Thereafter, the Germans utilised her as a stationary training ship and, in the final few months of the war, as a coal depot ship and floating bridge. Looted and dilapidated at the end of the war, she was returned to the new Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1946 and rebuilt as Jadran between 1947 and 1949. Between 1949 and 1991, training was mainly conducted in the Adriatic, and she undertook only five long-distance cruises. In 1984 she undertook her first long-distance cruise in two decades.
At the time that the Yugoslav Wars commenced in 1991, Jadran was undergoing a refit at Tivat in the Bay of Kotor, having been transferred from her home port of Split. During the wars she came under the control of rump Yugoslavia. The new state of Croatia requested her return, but this was refused. Her first cruise with the rump Yugoslav Navy was to Greece in 1997. In 2006, Montenegro became independent, and Jadran became a ship of the Montenegrin Navy. She sailed to the UK in 2005 for the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar celebrations, and to Barcelona, Spain in 2008 for the World Conservation Congress.
Jadran's ownership remains disputed between Montenegro and Croatia. In December 2021, the two countries agreed to form an inter-governmental commission to resolve her future status.