An item reported that in the afternoon of 24 January the Yugoslavian destroyer Loebliana hit a riff in the Adriatic sea port Sibenik and sunk probably with more as a hundred casualties.(1) She was manoeuvring with the destroyers Belgrado and Zagreb to enter the harbour when the accident occurred. The authorities ordered an investigation and the police closed the harbour. The storm that day caused strong currents in the harbour entrance making manoeuvring very difficult. The Loebliana managed to enter the harbour but the currents forced her to a riff and the engine room was immediately filled with water and she sunk within an instant. When the other destroyers tried to help her was she already disappeared taking the most of her crew of 130 men with her. She was in 1938 launched at Split and one of the four Yugoslavian destroyers. Her commanding officer Achlin was rescued and arrested although according to one rumour committed he suicide.
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1. The website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beograd_class_destroyer claims that she was part of the Beograd-class with as sister ships the Beegrad and the Zagreb. With a displacement of 1,230 (standard)-1,682 (full load) were the dimensions 98 x 9,45 x 3,19 metres or 321’6”x 31’0’x 10’5”. The turbines and three boilers supplied 40,000 hp allowing a speed of 38 knots. With a crew numbering 145 men were these destroyers armed with 4x1-12cm guns, 4-4cm guns, 2 machineguns, 3x2-53,3cm torpedo tubes and could they take 30 mines with them. In contrary to the Dutch news item says this website that she was captured on 17 April 1941 by Italy and sunk as the Italian Lubiana in the Gulf of Tunis on 1 April 1943. She was launched at the shipyard of Yarrow at Kraljevica on 28 June 1938 and completed in December a year later. Her sister ship Zagreb was in 1938 launched at Split but she was scuttled on 17 April 1941.
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1. The website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beograd_class_destroyer claims that she was part of the Beograd-class with as sister ships the Beegrad and the Zagreb. With a displacement of 1,230 (standard)-1,682 (full load) were the dimensions 98 x 9,45 x 3,19 metres or 321’6”x 31’0’x 10’5”. The turbines and three boilers supplied 40,000 hp allowing a speed of 38 knots. With a crew numbering 145 men were these destroyers armed with 4x1-12cm guns, 4-4cm guns, 2 machineguns, 3x2-53,3cm torpedo tubes and could they take 30 mines with them. In contrary to the Dutch news item says this website that she was captured on 17 April 1941 by Italy and sunk as the Italian Lubiana in the Gulf of Tunis on 1 April 1943. She was launched at the shipyard of Yarrow at Kraljevica on 28 June 1938 and completed in December a year later. Her sister ship Zagreb was in 1938 launched at Split but she was scuttled on 17 April 1941.
