Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Yugoslav gunboat Beli Orao

Yugoslav gunboat Beli Orao

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/December 7, 2021 by Wehwalt (talk) 17:49, 4 November 2021 (UTC)



Beli Orao was a royal yacht built for the Yugoslav Royal Navy in 1938–1939. She was captured in April 1941 by the Italians during the World War II Axis invasion of Yugoslavia. Re-armed, she saw service as a gunboat in the Italian Navy, briefly as Alba then Zagabria, undertaking harbour protection and coastal escort duties. She was then used to train anti-submarine warfare specialists. After the Italian armistice with the Allies in September 1943, she was handed back to the Yugoslav Navy-in-exile on 7 December. Refitted, and under her original name, she became a tender for a flotilla of motor gunboats. In this role she operated out of Malta, off the western coast of Italy, and later off the Yugoslav coast. After the war she remained in Yugoslav hands under the names Biokovo then Jadranka, serving as a naval yacht, as a presidential yacht and as a dispatch boat. In 1978, she was still in service, but was scrapped soon after.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Most recent Yugoslav ship article was Yugoslav monitor Drava on October 21.
 * Main editors: Peacemaker67
 * Promoted: August 29, 2021
 * Reasons for nomination: The ship was handed back to the Yugoslav Royal Navy on December 7, 1943. This article is part of a 36-article Featured Topic, Ships of the Royal Yugoslav Navy.
 * Support as nominator. Thanks to for the blurb. Peacemaker67  (click to talk to me) 06:46, 24 October 2021 (UTC)