Temes-class river monitor

The Temes class was a class of originally Austro-Hungarian river monitor warships used during World War I.[1] A notable member was the Bodrog (later the Yugoslav monitor Sava).

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
Class and type: Temes class 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)
Installed power:
Propulsion: 2 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed: 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Complement: 86 officers and enlisted
Armament:
  • 2 × 120 mm (4.7 in)/L35 guns (2 × 1)
  • 1 × 120 mm (4.7 in)/L10 howitzer
  • 2 × 37 mm (1.5 in) guns
Armour:

Armament

They were armed with two 120 mm (4.7 in)L/35[lower-alpha 1] 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.[2] 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).[3] 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
SMS Temes Drina, then Ardeal 26 March 1904 November 1904 November 1918 Sold to Yugoslavia as Drina, December 1918
SMS Bodrog Sava 12 April 1904 August 1904 November 1918 Sold to Yugoslavia as Sava, April 1920; currently undergoing conservation to be a museum ship.

Notes
  1. 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.

References
  1. http://www.navypedia.org/ships/austrohungary/ah_of_temes.htm
  2. Pawlik, Christ & Winkler 1989, p. 60.
  3. Greger 1976, p. 10.

Bibliography
  • Frampton, Viktor; Sieche, Erwin & Stewart, Charles L. (2006). "Question 22/04: Austro-Hungarian Danube River Monitors". Warship International. XLIII (3): 239–243. ISSN 0043-0374.
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