Đelo Jusić said at the ceremony of the premiere that the unit of armed boats consisted about small boats and speedboats camouflaged and armed by machine guns and that they had managed to outmanoeuvre the gunboats of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) that participated in the siege of Dubrovnik during the Homeland War.
Jusić said that this defending unit the acronym of which is ONB transported 5,000 people, soldiers and wounded persons and 4,000 tonnes of food, medicines, equipment and weapons during the 1991-1995 war.
The unit had 22 boats of different sizes and 117 volunteers were engaged in the unit. Of them, five were killed in the war operations.
During the war in a wider Dubrovnik area, 116 civilians and 430 Croatian soldiers were killed and several hundred were injured. As many as 443 Croats were taken to detention camps, and as many as 33,000 had to flee their homes during the siege and the attacks launched by the JNA and Serb and Montenegrin paramilitaries.
Dubrovnik was under siege from 1 October 1991 to 31 May 1992 and was shelled in the attacks from the air, ground and sea. On 6 December 1991, 19 people were killed and at least 60 were wounded.
In the war, over 2,000 dwellings were destroyed, private and public assets were looted and Dubrovnik was 138 days without power and water as well as 240 days in a sea and air blockade.