Temes-class monitor
Class of Austro-Hungarian river monitor warships
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The Temes class consisted of two river monitors built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy that saw service during World War I. A notable member was Bodrog (later the Yugoslav monitor Sava).
Austro-Hungarian NavyA model of SMS Temes at the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Temes class |
| Builders | United Schoenichen-Hartmann Shipyard |
| Operators | Austro-Hungarian Navy |
| Built | 1903–1904 |
| In service | 1904–1962 |
| Completed | 2 |
| Retired | 2 |
| Scrapped | 1 |
| Preserved | 1 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | River monitor |
| Displacement | 440 tonnes (430 long tons) |
| Length | 57.7 m (189 ft 4 in) |
| Beam | 9.5 m (31 ft 2 in) |
| Draught | 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in) |
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| Propulsion | 2 triple-expansion steam engines |
| Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Complement | 86 officers and enlisted |
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Description
They were armed with two 120 mm (4.7 in)L/35[a] guns in single gun turrets, a single 120 mm (4.7 in)L/10 howitzer in a central pivot mount, and two 37 mm (1.5 in) guns.[1] The maximum range of the Škoda 120 mm guns was 10 kilometres (6.2 mi), and the howitzer could fire its 20 kg (44 lb) shells a maximum of 6.2 km (3.9 mi).[2] The armour consisted of belt, bulkheads and gun turrets 40 mm (1.6 in) thick, and deck armour 25 mm (0.98 in) thick. The armour on the conning tower was 75 mm (3.0 in) thick. The gun turrets also had armour 75 mm (3.0 in) thick.
Ships
| Ship name | Renamed | Launched | Commissioned | Decommissioned | Fate |
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| SMS Temes | Drina, then Ardeal | 26 March 1904 | November 1904 | November 1918 | Assigned to Yugoslavia as Drina, December 1918; Transferred to Romania as Ardeal, April 1920 |
| SMS Bodrog | Sava | 12 April 1904 | August 1904 | November 1918 | Sold to Yugoslavia as Sava, April 1920; currently a museum ship as of early 2019. |
History
Notes
- L/35 denotes the length of the gun. In this case, the L/35 gun is calibre, meaning that the gun was 35 times as long as the diameter of its bore.