Wikipedia:Today's featured article/March 26, 2022
Jadran is a sailing ship for basic naval training built in Germany for the Royal Yugoslav Navy and currently in Montenegrin service. Commissioned in 1933, she completed seven long training cruises before World War II. During the war, she continued as a training ship, first by the Yugoslavians, but later by the Italians and then the Germans. Looted and dilapidated, she was returned to the new Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1946 and was rebuilt. Between 1949 and 1991, training was mainly conducted in the Adriatic, and she undertook only five long-distance cruises. When the Yugoslav Wars commenced in 1991, Jadran was homeported at Split but was undergoing a refit at Tivat in the Bay of Kotor and came under the control of rump Yugoslavia. In 2006, Montenegro became independent, and Jadran became a ship of the Montenegrin Navy. Her ownership remains disputed between Montenegro and Croatia; in December 2021, the two countries agreed to form a commission to settle the dispute. (Full article...)