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Zmaj was built in Germany as a seaplane tender for the Royal Yugoslav Navy in 1928–1930 and converted to a minelayer in 1937. During the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, she was slightly damaged by Italian dive bombers. Captured by the Italians, she was handed over to the Germans who renamed her Drache. She was used as a seaplane tender and later as a troop transport. In mid-1942 she was rebuilt as a minelayer with improved AA armament, renamed Schiff 50, and then used to evaluate the shipboard use of helicopters for anti-submarine warfare and mine reconnaissance. She continued to be used as both a troop transport and minelayer, laying several minefields in the Aegean. One minefield she laid in the Dodecanese in 1943 sank one British submarine, two Allied destroyers and badly damaged a third destroyer. She was sunk by British aircraft on 22 September 1944 while in port and scrapped in place after the end of World War II.

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Hi and anyone else interested: a draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:21, 23 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks as always, ! I'm thinking of 22 September next year, so I've added the date. Also a minor tweak or two. Now 1,022 I think. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 21:43, 23 September 2021 (UTC)