THE Serbia finally managed to function as a floating museum a warship that fired the first shots that launched the World War I., after years of effort with the assistance and encouragement of fans of the navy ships who wanted its restoration.
The SMS Bodrog was one of the two Austro-Hungarian heavy gunboats that sailed at the confluence of the rivers Sheba and Danube around midnight on July 28, 1914. His two cannons fired shells at Serb positions in Belgrade, marking the beginning of the Four Years’ War, in which some 20 million people were killed.
Renamed Sava, he also served in Second World War after its conquest by the Nazi German-occupied Croatian and was part of her former navy Yugoslavia until 1962 and was sold to a private company as a gravel barge.
It rotted for years at its berths near Belgrade, after retiring before being granted cultural heritage status by the Serbian government in 2005.
“In 2015, the Ministry of Defense decided that the ship should be placed under his auspices, was added to his list Military Museum “and in the following years it was restored and re-equipped,” she said Natasa Tomic, curator with Military Museum based in Belgrade, in the Reuters.
The Sava, which has now been fully restored and is floating on the river Sava near the city center Belgrade, is one of the two surviving Austro-Hungarian river tracking systems used during the World War I.. The other is SMS Leitha which is anchored in its capital Of Hungary, Budapest.
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