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YUGOSLAVIAN NAVY (YUGOSLAVIA)

COASTAL FORCES

GRANIČAR river patrol boats (1930)

Names

Граничар [Graničar]

Стражар [Stražar]

Builders

Hitzler, Regensburg, Germany: Graničar, Stražar

Commissioned

1930: Graničar, Stražar

Losses

Graničar (4/1941 to Italy), Stražar (4/1941 to Italy)

Transfers

none

Discarding

none

 

 

Displacement standard, t

30

Displacement full, t

36

Length, m

18.2

Breadth, m

3.00

Draught, m

1.00

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 diesel

Power, h. p.

120

Max speed, kts

10.7

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 8.3/83

Complement

?

Project history: Boats were built for service on lake Ohrid.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Both were captured by German troops in April, 1941 and transferred to Italy, in the autumn 1943 they were again captured by Germans and in spring of 1944 transferred to Bulgaria as Granicar and Straz. They continued to serve on lake Ohrid where they were abandoned in September, 1944. After war both were used by Yugoslavs as passenger boats.

 

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