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Croatian training ship Andrija Mohorovičić
Vessel of the Croatian navy
Andrija Mohorovičić (pennant number BŠ-72) is a Moma-class hydrographic survey ship used as a training vessel by the Croatian Navy (Croatian: Hrvatska ratna mornarica – HRM). The ship was built by the Gdańsk Shipyard in 1971 for use by the Hydrographic Institute of the Yugoslav Navy. At the start of the Croatian War of Independence, the ship was captured by Croatian forces and commissioned in the HRM in 1993.
Since then, the ship has been used as a training ship and a patrol boat of the Croatian Coast Guard. In 2015 Andrija Mohorovovičić deployed to southern Italy to participate in Operation Triton, rescuing immigrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea into the European Union. The ship returned to Croatia after three months, rescuing over 2,500 immigrants during the course of its deployment