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BELI ORAO patrol gunboat (1940)


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Beli Orao

Ships


Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Бели Орао [Beli Orao], 1945- Биоково [Biokovo], 1949- Јадранка [Jadranka]   CRDA, Monfalcone, Italy   3.6.1939 1940 captured by Italy 4.1941 (Alba), returned 12.1943, stricken 1978


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

567

Displacement full, t

660

Length, m

60.1 pp 65.0 oa

Breadth, m

8.08

Draught, m

2.84

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Sulzer diesels

Power, h. p.

1900

Max speed, kts

18

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

2 x 1 - 40/56 Bofors M36, 2 x 1 - 7.9/83

Complement

 



Standard scale images


<i>Jadranka </i>1965
Jadranka 1965


Graphics


<i>Jadranka </i>1951
Jadranka 1951
<i> Beli Orao</i>
Beli Orao


Project history

Patrol ship intended for usage mainly as royal and governmental yacht and capable to fulfil surveying role.

Modernizations

1960s: + radar

Naval service

In 1941 Beli Orao was captured by Italian troops at Kotor and commissioned by their navy as Alba, then Zagrabia. Zagrabia was returned to Yugoslavian government in exile 7.12.1943. In 1944-1945 she was used as depot ship for Yugoslavian "Higgins" boats. After war as Biokovo, and then Jadranka she served under Yugoslavian flag being one of yachts of marshal J. B. Tito.