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Hrabri 1934

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Храбри [Hrabri] (ex-L67)		1020	Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow, UK	11.1917	16.6.1919 and 15.6.1927	2.1928	captured by Italy 17.4.1941 (N3)
Небојша [Nebojša] (ex-L68), 1945- Тара [Tara]	П801 [P801]	1021	Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow, UK	12.1917	2.7.1919 and 15.7.1927	2.1928	stricken 1958

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	?
Displacement normal, t	975 / 1164
Length, m	72.1
Breadth, m	7.32
Draught, m	3.96
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 diesels / 2 electric motors
Power, h. p.	2400 / 1600
Max speed, kts	15.7 / 10
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	5000(9) /
Armament	2 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk IV, 6 - 533 TT (bow, 12)
Electronic equipment	hydrophone
Complement	47
Diving depth operational, m	50

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Project history

Laid down by Armstrong for Royal Navy as L67 and L68, but in March, 1919 the order was cancelled by Admiralty. Both submarines were launched (16.6.1919 and 2.7.1919 respectively) to exempt a slipway. In October, 1919 they were sold by British Government to builder. In 1926 the contract with Vickers-Armstrong on their completion for Yugoslavian Navy was concluded, then both hulls were again lifted on a shipway and commenced building under slightly updated project. Saddle-tank hull. Both arrived to Yugoslavia 8.4.1928.

Modernizations

early 1930s: CT was rebuilt, guns were moved to the deck.

late 1930s, both: + 1 x 1 - 13.2/76.

Naval service

Hrabri was captured at Kotor 17.4.1941; she was enlisted by Regia Marina as N3, but owing to bad technical condition she was never really commissioned and late 1941 sold for scrap. Nebojša 9.4.1941 departed for battle campaign and after capitulation of Yugoslavian Army escaped to Alexandria where has arrived 27.4.1941. She was used as training hulk and battery recharging plant for British submarines. In August, 1945 she returned to Yugoslavia and commissioned by new Yugoslavian Navy as Tara, however actually she was never used as battle boat and served as training hulk at Split.