Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Yugoslav monitor Sava

Yugoslav monitor Sava

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/July 29, 2024  by - Dank (push to talk) 13:45, 9 June 2024 (UTC)



The Yugoslav monitor Sava was a river monitor built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy as SMS Bodrog. She and two other monitors fired the first shots of World War I in the early hours of 29 July 1914, when they shelled Serbian defences near Belgrade. During the war, she fought the Serbian and Romanian armies, and was captured in its closing stages. She was transferred to the newly created Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia), and renamed Sava. During the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, she fought off several air attacks, but was scuttled on 11 April. Sava was later raised by the Axis puppet state, the Independent State of Croatia, and continued to serve under that name until 1944 when she was again scuttled. Following World War II, Sava was raised again, and was refurbished to serve in the Yugoslav Navy from 1952 to 1962. After that she became a gravel barge, but was later restored and opened as a floating museum in November 2021.
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 * Main editors: Peacemaker67
 * Promoted: January 23, 2016
 * Reasons for nomination: 110th anniversary of the ship firing the first shots of World War I is July 29, 2024.
 * Support as nominator. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 04:07, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Support. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:30, 31 May 2024 (UTC)