02.08.1917 postcard from K.u.K Kriegsmarine, Donauflottille (Danube river fleet) to Zemun, Slavonia then part of Croatia. Text is in Croatian language. Mailed via Fp.299b which served Donauflottille command and later KuK units in Romania.
All mail from KuK Donauflottille is rare but mail to Croatia is extremely rare, i have seen just a couple of items in years i collect Feldpost.
SMS Bodrog was river monitor that entered service with KuK Kriegsmarine in 1904, it fired the first shoots in the Great War. After the WWI it was transferred to Kingdom of Yugoslavia navy. During German invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941 it was scuttled but later raised and served with Croatian Navy river fleet as monitor "Sava" until September 1944 when it was scuttled again. Raised again after WW2 it served with Yugoslav navy again . In 2018 it was repaired by Serbian state to become a museum, and is one of the two KuK Monitors that are still around ,the other one being SMS Leitha in Budapest.
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