Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Yugoslav gunboat Beli Orao/archive1
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. (This article is part of a featured topic: Ships of the Royal Yugoslav Navy.)
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Hi Peacemaker67 and anyone else interested: a draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:34, 23 September 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks again, Gog. I've put it on the pending list for 7 December this year so added that date, its 1,014 now. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 21:54, 23 September 2021 (UTC)