Yugoslav destroyer Zagreb

Zagreb's sister ship Beograd (right) and Dubrovnik (left) in the Bay of Kotor after being captured by Italy
History
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Name	Zagreb
Namesake	Zagreb
Launched	30 March 1938
Commissioned	August 1939
Out of service	17 April 1941
Fate	Scuttled by crew on 17 April 1941
General characteristics
Class and type	Beograd-class destroyer
Displacement	1,210 tonnes (1,190 long tons) (standard) 1,655 tonnes (1,629 long tons) (full load)
Length	98 m (321 ft 6 in)
Beam	9.45 m (31 ft)
Draught	3.18 m (10 ft 5 in)
Installed power	3 × Yarrow water-tube boilers 40,000–44,000  kW )
Propulsion	2 × shafts Parsons steam turbines
Speed	35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph)
Complement	145
Armament	4 × single 120 mm (4.7 in) guns 2 × dual 40 mm (1.6 in) AA guns 2 × triple 550 mm (22 in) torpedo tubes 2 × machine guns 30 naval mines

Zagreb was the second of three Beograd-class destroyers built for the Royal Yugoslav Navy (KM) in the late 1930s. She was designed to be deployed as part of a division led by the flotilla leader Dubrovnik and was the first warship built in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Zagreb entered service in August 1939, was armed with a main battery of four 120 mm (4.7 in) guns in single mounts, and had a top speed of 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph).

Yugoslavia entered World War II when the German-led Axis powers invaded in April 1941. On 17 April, Zagreb was scuttled by two of her officers at the Bay of Kotor to prevent her capture by approaching Italian forces. Both officers were killed by the explosion of the scuttling charges. A 1967 French film, Flammes sur l'Adriatique (Adriatic Sea of Fire), told the story of her demise and the deaths of the two officers. In 1973, on the thirtieth anniversary of the formation of the Yugoslav Navy, both men were posthumously awarded the Order of the People's Hero by President Josip Broz Tito.

Background

In the early 1930s, the

She was laid down in 1936,^[10][14] and launched on 30 March 1938.^[6] Zagreb was the first warship to be built in Yugoslavia.^[15] Her launching ceremony was overseen by the wife of the Minister of Army and Navy^[5] and a public holiday was declared to mark the occasion.^[15] The destroyer was commissioned into the KM in August 1939.^[13]

Career

At the time of the

The destruction of Zagreb was portrayed in the 1967 French film Flammes sur l'Adriatique (Adriatic Sea of Fire), which was directed by Alexandre Astruc, and starred Gérard Barray. The film was partly filmed on location in Yugoslavia and was released in France in 1968.^[20] In 1973, on the thirtieth anniversary of the establishment of the Yugoslav Navy, the President of Yugoslavia and wartime Partisan leader Josip Broz Tito posthumously awarded both officers the Order of the People's Hero for their courage. In the mid-1980s, Mašera's head was disinterred and forensically identified, after which it was buried at a cemetery in Ljubljana (in modern-day Slovenia).^[17] A portion of Zagreb's bow is kept on display at the Maritime Museum of Montenegro in Kotor.^[18]

Notes

Footnotes

References

Books, journals and news

• "Addition to Yugoslavia's Fleet". Great Britain and the East. London: Brittain. 1938.
  OCLC 183360562
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• Campbell, John (1985). Naval Weapons of World War Two. London: Conway Maritime Press.
  ISBN 978-0-85177-329-2
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• Cernuschi, Enrico & O'Hara, Vincent O. (2005). "The Star-Crossed Split". In Jordan, John (ed.). Warship 2005. London: Conway Maritime Press. pp. 97–110.
  ISBN 978-1-84486-003-6
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• Chesneau, Roger, ed. (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. London: Conway Maritime Press.
  ISBN 978-0-85177-146-5
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• Freivogel, Zvonimir (2014). "From Glasgow to Genoa under Three Flags – The Yugoslav Flotilla Leader Dubrovnik" (PDF). Voennyi Sbornik. 4 (2). Sochi, Russian Federation: Academic Publishing House Researcher: 83–88.
  ISSN 2309-6322
  . Retrieved 25 October 2014.
• Freivogel, Zvonimir & Grobmeier, A. H. (2006). "Question 36/05: Armament of Yugoslav Destroyer Leader Split". Warship International. XLIII (4): 362.
  ISSN 0043-0374
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• ISBN 978-1-84832-100-7
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• Freivogel, Zvonimir & Rastelli, Achille (2015). Adriatic Naval War 1940-1945. Zagreb: Despot Infinitus.
  ISBN 978-953-7892-44-9
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• Jarman, Robert L., ed. (1997a). Yugoslavia Political Diaries 1918–1965. Vol. 2. Slough, UK: Cambridge Archive Editions.
  ISBN 978-1-85207-950-5
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• Jarman, Robert L., ed. (1997b). Yugoslavia Political Diaries 1918–1965. Vol. 3. Slough, UK: Cambridge Archive Editions.
  ISBN 978-1-85207-950-5
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• ISBN 978-0-356-04661-7
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• ISBN 978-1-84486-003-6
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• ISBN 978-0-87021-326-7
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• "Flammes sur l'Adriatique (1967) – Alexandre Astruc" [Adriatic Sea of Fire (1967) – Alexandre Astruc] (in French).
  La Cinémathèque française
  . 2001. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
• "Kako su oficiri Spasić i Mašera herojski poginuli u Boki" [How the officers Spasić and Mašera Heroically Died in Boka]. Cafe del Montenegro (in Serbo-Croatian). 17 April 2017. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
• Luković, Siniša (2016). ""Zagreb" umire, "Zagreb" se ne predaje" ["Zagreb" is dying, "Zagreb" will not surrender]. Vijesti online (in Serbo-Croatian). Vijesti. Archived from the original on 14 October 2017. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
• "World War I and II". Maritime Museum of Montenegro. 2007. Retrieved 25 January 2020.