Yugoslav submarine Hrabri
Hrabri underway in 1934
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 Kingdom of Yugoslavia
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| Name: | Hrabri |
| Namesake: | Brave |
| Builder: | Vickers-Armstrong Naval Yard, River Tyne, United Kingdom |
| Launched: | 1927 |
| In service: | 1927–41 |
| Out of service: | 1941 |
| Fate: | Scrapped by the Royal Italian Navy |
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| Class and type: | Hrabri-class diesel-electric submarine |
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| Length: | 72.05 m (236 ft 5 in) |
| Beam: | 7.32 m (24 ft) |
| Draught: | 3.96 m (13 ft) |
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| Range: | 3,800 nautical miles (7,000 km; 4,400 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Test depth: | 60 metres (200 ft) |
| Complement: | 45 |
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The Yugoslav submarine Hrabri was the first of the Hrabri-class diesel-electric submarines built by the Vickers-Armstrong Naval Yard on the River Tyne in the United Kingdom, for the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia). Launched in 1927, her design was based on that of the British L-class submarine of World War I, and she was built using parts originally assembled for a submarine of that class which was never completed. She was armed with six bow-mounted 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes, two 102 mm (4 in) guns and one machine gun, and could dive to 60 metres (200 ft).
Prior to World War II she participated in several cruises to Mediterranean ports. During the German-led Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, she was captured by Italian forces. She was given the number N3 but was not commissioned and was scrapped later in 1941 due to her poor condition.
Yugoslav naval policy in the interwar period lacked direction until the mid-1920s, although it was generally accepted that the Adriatic coastline was effectively a sea frontier that the naval arm was responsible for securing with the limited resources made available to it. In 1926, a modest ten-year construction program was initiated to build up a force of submarines, coastal torpedo boats, torpedo bombers and conventional bomber aircraft to perform this role. The Hrabri-class submarines were one of the first new acquisitions aimed at developing a naval force capable of meeting this challenge.
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