SMS Maros

Maros was one of two Leitha-class river monitors built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy during the 1870s. Completed in 1872, she participated in the First World War of 1914–1918 and the subsequent Hungarian–Czechoslovak War of 1918–1919.

NameMaros

NamesakeMureș

BuilderPest Flumaner Schiffbau, Budapest

Launched20 April 1871

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SMS Maros c. 1915
History
Austria-Hungary
Name	Maros
Namesake	Mureș
Builder	Pest Flumaner Schiffbau, Budapest
Launched	20 April 1871
Commissioned	13 October 1872
Out of service	6 November 1918
Fate	Transferred to the Hungarian People's Republic
Hungarian People's Republic
Acquired	6 November 1918
Out of service	31 December 1918
Fate	Assigned to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, 1920
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Acquired	1920
Fate	Scrapped, January 1921
General characteristics
Class & type	Leitha-class river monitor
Displacement	310 t (310 long tons)
Length	50.5 m (165 ft 8 in)
Beam	8.65 m (28 ft 5 in)
Draught	1.3 m (4 ft 3 in)
Installed power	2 boilers 700 ihp (520 kW)
Propulsion	2 screws; 2 double-expansion steam engines
Speed	8.3 knots (15.4 km/h; 9.6 mph)
Armament	As built: 2 × single 15 cm (5.9 in) cannon 2 × 4-barreled 19 mm (0.7 in) Nordenfelt guns After 1892: 1 × single 120 mm (4.7 in) gun 2 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) revolver cannon 1 × single 8 mm (0.3 in) machine gun 1915: 1 × single 120 mm gun 3 × single 66 mm (2.6 in) guns 2 × 5-barreled 37 mm (1.5 in) revolver cannon 2 × single 8 mm Schwarzlose machine guns
Armor	Hull: 44 mm (1.7 in) Turret: 44–51 mm (1.7–2.0 in) Conning tower: 64 mm (2.5 in) Deck: 25 mm (1 in)

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