Beograd was the lead ship of a class of destroyers built for the Royal
Yugoslav Navy during the late 1930s. Commissioned on 28 April 1939, she
was damaged by a near miss during an air attack following the German-led
Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, and then captured by the
Italians. After refitting, she saw extensive service with the Royal
Italian Navy from August 1941 to September 1943, completing more than
100 convoy escort missions under the name Sebenico in the Mediterranean,
mainly between Italy and the Aegean or North Africa. Following the
Italian armistice in September 1943, she was captured by the German
Navy and redesignated TA43. After serving with the 9th Torpedo Boat
Flotilla on escort and minelaying duties in the northern Adriatic, she
was sunk or scuttled at Trieste on 30 April or 1 May 1945, raised in
June 1946, probably to remove her as a navigation hazard, and scuttled
again either in July 1946 or in 1947. (This article is part of a
featured topic: Ships of the Royal Yugoslav Navy.).
Read more:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Ships_of_the_Royal_Yugoslav_Navy>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1789:
Fletcher Christian, the acting lieutenant on board the Royal
Navy ship Bounty, led a mutiny against the commander William Bligh in
the South Pacific.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutiny_on_the_Bounty>
1923:
The 1923 FA Cup final (crowd and police pictured) between
Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United was held on the opening day of the
Empire Stadium in London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923_FA_Cup_final>
1945:
World War II: Benito Mussolini, the deposed fascist dictator
of Italy, was executed by partisans in Giulino.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Benito_Mussolini>
1983:
The West German news magazine Stern published excerpts from the
purported diaries of Adolf Hitler, later revealed to be forgeries.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Diaries>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
use a sledgehammer to crack a nut:
(intransitive, Australia, Britain, New Zealand, idiomatic, informal) To
use disproportionate or significantly excessive force to carry out an
action; to do something overzealously.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/use_a_sledgehammer_to_crack_a_nut>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
One of the hardest lessons of young Sam's life had been finding
out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It had been finding out
that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a
grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.
--Night Watch
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Discworld#Night_Watch_%282002%29>