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.).

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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

_____________________________ 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

___________________________ 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