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Dubrovnik

Post by shipstamps » Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:15 pm


Jugoslavia featured the destroyer Dubrovnik on a 2+ 1.50 dinars stamp of 1939. She was built by Yarrow and Co.. Ltd., of Glasgow, and was completed on October 11, 1931. Her standard displacement was 1,880 tons (2.400 tons fully loaded), she was 345ft. long, her designed speed was 37 knots, her normal cruising range 7,000 miles and her complement was 200. She was armed with four 5.5in. Skoda guns, two 3.4in. anti-aircraft guns and six 21in. torpedo tubes, while she was also fitted for mine-laying. The Dubrovnik was seized by the Italians during the war and was renamed Premuda She was scuttled by the Germans at Genoa on April 24, 1945; they had numbered her TA. 32.
SG409 Sea Breezes 11/51

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