Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Jadran"

Technical data of the sailing ship:

Name:Jadran
Ex-names:Marco Polo
Registered port:Tivat
Nation:Montenegro
Type of rigging:3-MAST-TOPPSEGELSCHONER
Year built:1933
Yard:Stülkenwerft, Hamburg, GER
Overall length:58.00 m
Length (hull):48.00 m
Breadth:8.90 m
Draught:4.20 m
Sail area:933 m2
Ship's hull:Stahl / Steel
Power:480 PS
Engine:Burmeister-Alpha-Diesel

Portrait of the sailing ship:

Last update: 18 Jan 2014

  • built at the shipyard of H.C. Stülcken & Sohn in Hamburg, GER; launched on June 25, 1931.
  • 1933 commissioned into the Yugoslav Royal Navy as training ship, used in the Mediterranean Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean, 1938 voyage to North America calling ports in New York and Boston.
  • 1941 in World War II after German invasion of Yugoslavia captured by the Italian navy, used as a training ship, renamed the "Marco Polo".
  • 1943 after the capitulation of Italy she laid abandoned in Venice, ITA; begin of decay, barely floating she served as a bridge in one of the Venetian canals.
  • given back to Yugoslavia, she returned to Tivat, repaired between April 1947 and December 1948.
  • served as training ship of the Vojnopomorskog school center in Divulje, Croatia.
  • 1956-57 general repairs and reconstruction in Tivat, completely gutted, replacement of the complete inventory and a mast, dismantling of the deck.
  • 1966-67 another general repair and modernization in the Tivatin Arsenal.
  • 1967-92 used by the Yugoslavian navy as training ship, out of service then for a time.
  • 2005 she took part in Trafalgar bicentennial celebrations in Portsmouth, GBR.
  • passed to Montenegro in 2006, commissioned as training ship again.
  • drydocked in 2013 at the Adriatic shipyard Bijela-Boka Bay, Montenegro.
  • name "Jadran" means Adriatic sea.

Literature for further reading:

We recommend the following references for your further research of the ship. The references marked with have been included in the generation of the ship profile on this page.

Otmar Schäuffelen
"Die letzten grossen Segelschiffe"
Delius Klasing Verlag 1997 ISBN: 3-7688-0483-6
(9. aktualisierte Auflage)
Page: 200 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data

"Faszination Segelschiffe"
Ein interaktives Informationssystem auf CD-ROM 1998
(2. überarbeitete Auflage)
Source with technical data Quelle with contact

Otmar Schäuffelen
"Die letzten grossen Segelschiffe"
Delius Klasing Verlag 2002 ISBN: 3-7688-0483-6
(10. aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage)
Page: 205 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data

Zvonimir Freivogel
"Segelschulschiff Jadran"
Schiffahrtsgeschichtliche Gesellschaft Ostsee e.V. 2007
Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data