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In ZIP file you HAVE MAP FOLDER and LINEMATIC DOCUMENT
Type: | Seaplane Tender |
Reclassified: | As minelayer, 1937 |
Displacement: | 1.870 t (standart) 2.030 t (full) |
Length: | 83 m |
Beam: | 13, 7 m |
Draught: | 3,5 - 4 m |
Speed: | 15 knots |
Armament: | 2 × 1 Škoda 83,5 mm 2 × 2 Škoda 40 mm 100 - 120 mines |
Aircraft carried: | 1-2 × seaplane |
Aviation facilities: | 1 × crane 1 × hangar |
The Yugoslav seaplane tender Zmaj (Dragon) was built in Germany for the Royal Yugoslav Navy in 1928–1930. She does not appear to have been much used in that role, except for one rescue of a seaplane that crashed in the Bay of Kotor, and was converted to a minelayer in 1937. She was flagship of the Fleet 1939-1940.
Captured by the Germans when they invaded Yugoslavia in 1941, the ship was renamed German: Drache, lit. 'Dragon' and redesignated as an aircraft tender and later as a troop transport, before she was rebuilt as a minelayer in 1942. Drache laid one minefield in 1943 that sank two Allied destroyers and badly damaged a third in the Aegean Sea. Drache was also used by the Germans to evaluate the shipboard use of helicopters for reconnaissance purposes. She was sunk by Allied aircraft in 1944 at Samos and scrapped in place after the end of World War II.
Shader: Sildur's Vibrant Shader
This map is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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