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Please Give These Boats A Good Home
April 18,
2008: Montenegro, which separated from Serbia two years ago, inherited a chunk
of the Yugoslavian navy as part of the deal. But the ships are Cold War
vintage, and have not been kept up since the civil war of the 1990s. So most
are being sold off. Recognizing that there is not much of a market for these
ships, and wanting to get more than scrap value, the navy is offering two
Yugoslav built (in Croatia) coastal submarines to museums, or anyone who will
preserve them. These are Sava class boats of 830 tons, with six 533mm torpedo
tubes and accommodations for a crew of 27. Actually, only one of the boats is
operational, this having been accomplished by cannibalizing the other one. The
older boat was commissioned in 1978, the second one (which was cannibalized) in
1982. These boats will go cheap, to anyone
who will give them a suitable home.
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