Drought Exposes 113-Year-Old ‘Sava’s Titanic’

A 113-year-old shipwreck has resurfaced in Serbia’s Sava River as extreme drought lowers water levels across Europe, revealing hidden relics of the past. The vessel, known as the Slovenian, emerged near Sremska Mitrovica, approximately 70 kilometers northwest of Belgrade, earlier this month. The steam tugboat, originally constructed in 1913 in Budapest under the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was first named Vag after a river in present-day Slovakia. Measuring about 54 meters in length, it operated as a cargo tug along the Danube until World War I halted its service. After the war,…

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