Italy seized Yugoslavian Swiss-flagged merchant ships according to the Dutch newspaper Noordbrabantschs dagblad het huisgezin dated 10 April 1941

An item dated Rome 9 April reported that the two Yugoslavian ships Doebac (1) of 2,819 tons and the Dubrovacka Plividba (2) lying in the port of Genoa were seized by the Italian government, despite both ships were in Swiss service and Swiss flagged. Their cargoes were unloaded and to be sent to Switzerland.


Notes
1. Roger Jordan. The world’s Merchant Fleets 1939, page 435 mentioned a Dubac built in 1901 at the shipyard of J. Blumer&Co, Sunderland belonging to the Yugoslavian company Dubrovacka Plovidba Ackionarsko Drustvo of Dubrovnik with a  gross tonnage of 2,819 tons and a deadweight of 4,850 tons and as dimensions 391’7” x 46’1”x x 20’3” and a speed of 8,0 knots. Her hull was black colored being red boot-topped and a white dividing line. She was seized on 29 March 1941 and became in 1946 the Jugoslavian Solta.
2. The Dubravka which became in 1946 the Jugoslavian Plitvice? Of the same company, ex-Maria Immaculata renamed in 1922, built in 1905 at the shipyard of J. Readhead &Sons at South Shields, with a gross tonnage of 3,798 tons, a deadweight 6,428 tons and as dimensions 347’0”x 49’2” x 22’8” and a speed of 8,25 knots?