Abstract
This paper assesses the Royal Yugoslav Navy (RYN) during its period of exile and cooperation with the British Royal Navy during World War II. It argues that the RYN was hampered by matériel, personnel, and political problems of such magnitude that it was of little use to the Allied cause. Sections treat the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia and the transition to exile, the period of turmoil and slow growth during 1942 and 1943, the dramatic changes between the surrender of Italy and the exile government’s dissolution, and the gradual abolishment of the RYN in the postwar period.
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Mark C. Jones, “Steaming Ahead and Astern: The Royal Yugoslav Navy in Exile, 1941–1945,” The Journal of Military History 90, no. 3 (July 2026): 602–626.