The Galeb ship will become a great deal of Rijeka this year

The Museum of the City of the River is preparing a permanent museum exhibition, which will show a rich and incredibly interesting history of the ship. The city of Rijeka is looking for a partner or tenant for commercial content on a ship that includes a catering and the possibility of arranging accommodation capacity. The potential of this ship for Rijeka tourism and tourism -related activities is extremely large. The seagull will be moored on the Rijeka Mol Longo, as part of a passenger port, just next to the location for the berth of the cruisers, which there are more on the river every year. It is estimated that the Galeb ship will visit about 50,000 people in the first year. The tourist potential of the seagull is even greater, as the river reaches the continuous growth of tourism by all indicators. Thus, in 2023 they had 21 percent more guest arrivals than in 2022, and foreign tourists represent 81 percent of all tourists on the river. The number of visitors from the cruisers is around 50,000 a year.

For investors in catering activity is more than 600 m on the Galeb ship² surfaces to prepare and serve food and drink and nearly 300 m² Shipping terraces – 940 square meters in total. In addition, 400 m is available² Surfaces for arranging accommodation capacity with the ability to adapt space to the needs of the tenant regarding the number of rooms, beds and restrooms. The city is also open to other options for the arrangement of commercial parts of the ship, such as multi -purpose halls for various events, birthdays, weddings, various social and entertainment events and the like.

Photo: City River

The seagull has so far attracted a great deal of attention to the foreign public, especially foreign media, which view it as a material witness to the historical period after World War II, when the movement of the non -aligned was created and developed. The ship has a variety of uses in its 87-year history, as well as incredible stories about multiple dives, rescue and recovery. It was built and rafted in 1938 at the Ansaldo shipyard in Genoa, Italy, under the name Ramb III. It was intended for the transport of cargo. It is to be transported to Europe by exotic fruit, for this purpose its construction was commissioned by the Italian company Regia ASIENDA Monopoli Banane (RAMB). It was the third of the fourth ship of this company. At the beginning of World War II, Ramb III was transformed into an accompanying ship of the Italian Navy, transporting food for Italian soldiers in Africa. After the capitulation of Italy in 1943, it was taken over by the Germans and transformed into a minorist. In this role, the ship laid more than 5,000 minutes in Kvarner and the northern Adriatic. In November 1944, during the bombing of the port of Rijeka, she was immersed in an allied aircraft. It was immersed in the port for three years, and then in 1947 it was lifted from the bottom by Split company Brodospas. The ship was dragged to Pula, to the Uljanik shipyard, where it was dismantled, re -assembled and completely renovated and arranged in the school ship of the Yugoslav Navy.

Galeb sailed to London in 1953 because Josip Broz Tito hosted Winston Churchill and Queen Elizabeth II. Photo: Topfoto/Profimedia

Galeb sailed to London on his first journey abroad in 1953, where Josip Broz Tito hosted Winston Churchill and Queen Elizabeth II. London was followed by numerous trips to Asian and African countries, which aimed to promote ideas and policy of non -alignment in a world affected by the division into the eastern and western blocks. The fourth life of the seagull will be museum. The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia declared the Galeb ship in 2006 as a cultural heritage and was then purchased by the River City in order to remodel it into the first Croatian ship museum.

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