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Galeb-class minelayer

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This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/July 29, 2023 by Jimfbleak - talk to me? 14:57, 12 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Former German minesweeper M 120, sister ship to the Galeb-class ships
Former German minesweeper M 120, sister ship to the Galeb-class ships

The six Galeb-class minelayers were originally built as minesweepers for the Imperial German Navy. In July 1921, they were purchased for the navy of the newly created Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (from 1929, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia). Re-armed, they were mainly used for training and "show the flag" cruises. Reclassified as minelayers, just before the April 1941 Axis invasion of Yugoslavia they laid mines off the Yugoslav coast, which probably resulted in the sinking of two Yugoslav merchant ships. All six were captured and put into Italian service escorting convoys in the Mediterranean Sea. All but one were lost or sunk during the war, with the remaining vessel escaping into Allied hands in September 1943 and being returned to the Royal Yugoslav Navy-in-exile at Malta in December. It was transferred the new Yugoslav Navy after the war and helped clear thousands of mines laid in Yugoslav waters, being finally disposed of in 1962. (Full article...)