The Hrabri class were two submarines built for the Royal Yugoslav Navy in Great Britain during the 1920's. The boats fought in World War II.

Design

The ships were designed and built by Vickers Armstrong

Vickers Armstrong

Vickers-Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Company in 1927...

 in Britain and were based on the British L class submarine

British L class submarine

The British L class submarine were originally planned under the emergency war programme as an improved version of the British E class submarine. The scale of change allowed the L class to become a separate class....

. The design was considered obsolescent and the boats were obtained at a low price (Cornusci & O'Hara) by using material assembeled for the cancelled British submarines L67 and L68. The submarines were considered too large for Adriatic conditions and could only dive to 80 m

Ships

Two boats were built by Vickers Armstrong on Tyneside

• Hrabri

Launched 1927

Captured by Italy in 1941, but scrapped due to her poor condition

• Nebojsa

Launched 1927

Escaped to Alexandria in 1941 and served with the British Mediterranean Fleet 1941-44. Served as the Tara in the post war Yugoslav Navy until scrapped in 1954