Jadran is a training ship powered both by sail and internal
combustion built for the navy of Yugoslavia and now owned by the Navy of Montenegro. My friend Karoly
a resident of Serbia sent me this fine card..
Jadran is a barkentine with a displacement of 737 tons and a
length of almost 60 meters. The beam reaches 8.90 m, intermediate draft is
4.05 m, the main mast height 39.1 m, and the deck surface totals 93.3 m2. Total
length of rope is 11 kilometers. The main motor is the "burmajster-alpha"
353 kN and develops a maximum speed of 10.4 knots. On the sailboat, there
are three single, two double and three four-person cabins, one 12-berth and one
30 berth space.
On 16 July 1933, at 10.00 hours, the ship
arrived in Tivat,
and was commissioned into theYugoslav Royal Navy. The crew remained on board until April
17, when the destroyer Zagreb was
sunk. It was surrendered to the Italian
Navy , which used it as a training ship under
the new name Marco Polo.
At the request of the Yugoslav government and the ship was returned to Tivat. Immediately its
restoration was begun in the Sava Kovacevic marine-technical
repair bureau. Repairs began on 21 April 1947, and finished on 17 December
1948. The ship was ready for sailing, and served as part of the Vojnopomorskog
school center in Divulje.
