 Hrabri underway in 1934
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| History | |
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 Kingdom of Yugoslavia | |
| Name | Hrabri |
| Namesake | Brave |
| Builder | Vickers-Armstrong Naval Yard, River Tyne, United Kingdom |
| Launched | 1927 |
| In service | 1927–1941 |
| Out of service | 1941 |
| Fate | Scrapped by the Royal Italian Navy |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Hrabri-class diesel-electric submarine |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 72.1 m (236 ft 7 in) (oa) |
| Beam | 7.31 m (24 ft) |
| Draught | 4 m (13 ft) |
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| Speed |
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| Range | 5,000 nautical miles (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) (surfaced) |
| Test depth | 60 m (200 ft) |
| Complement | 47 |
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Hrabri (Brave) was the lead boat of the Hrabri-class submarines; built for the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes– Yugoslavia by the Vickers-Armstrong Naval Yard in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1927, her design was based on the British L-class submarine of World War I, and was built using parts from an L-class submarine that was never completed. The Hrabri-class were the first submarines to serve in the Royal Yugoslav Navy (KM),[a] and after extensive sea trials and testing Hrabri sailed from the UK to the Adriatic coast of Yugoslavia, arriving in April 1928. The submarine was armed with six bow-mounted 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes, two 102 mm (4 in) deck guns, one QF 2-pounder (40 mm (1.6 in)) L/39 anti-aircraft gun and two machine guns. Its maximum diving depth was restricted to 55 metres (180 ft) by Yugoslav naval regulations.
Prior to World War II, Hrabri participated in cruises to Mediterranean ports. In 1933–1934 she was refitted, her superstructure was extensively modified and the 2-pounder gun was replaced with a single 13.2 mm (0.52 in) Hotchkiss M1929 anti-aircraft machine gun. By 1938 the class was considered to be obsolete, but efforts to replace them with modern German coastal submarines were stymied by the advent of World War II, and Hrabri remained in service. Immediately before the April 1941 German-led Axis invasion of Yugoslavia, Hrabri conducted patrols in the Adriatic Sea, and was then captured by Italian forces. She was given the number N3, but after an inspection she was scrapped.
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