Sava-class river monitor

Class overview
Name: Sava
Builders: Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino, Linz
Operators:
Preceded by: Enns class
Succeeded by: Mo. XI class
Built: 1914–1915
In service: 1915–1946?
Completed: 2
Lost: 1
Retired: 1
General characteristics
Type: River monitor
Displacement: 580 tonnes (570 long tons)
Length: 62 m (203 ft 5 in)
Beam: 10.3 m (33 ft 10 in)
Draught: 1.3 m (4 ft 3 in)
Installed power:
Propulsion: 2 vertical triple-expansion steam engines
Speed: 13.5 knots (25.0 km/h; 15.5 mph)
Complement: 91 officers and enlisted men
Armament:
  • 1 × twin 120 mm (4.7 in)/L45 guns
  • 1 × twin 120 mm (4.7 in)/L10 howitzers
  • 1 × twin 66 mm (2.6 in)/L26 guns
  • 2 × single 47 mm (1.9 in)/L44 guns
  • 7 × machine guns
Armour:

The Sava-class river monitors were built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy during the mid-1910s. The two ships of the class were assigned to the Danube Flotilla and participated in World War I. The ships survived the war and were transferred to Romania and the newly created Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia) as reparations.

Description and construction

The ships had an overall length of 62 m (203 ft 5 in), a beam of 10.3 m (33 ft 10 in), and a normal draught of 1.3 m (4 ft 3 in). They displaced 580 tonnes (570 long tons), and their crew consisted of 91 officers and enlisted men.[1] The Sava-class ships were powered by two triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one shaft, using steam generated by two Yarrow boilers driving.[1] The engines were rated at 1,750 indicated horsepower (1,300 kW) and were designed to reach a top speed of 13.5 knots (25.0 km/h; 15.5 mph). They carried 75 long tons (76 t) of fuel oil.[2]

The main armament of the Sava-class river monitors was a pair of 120 mm (4.7 in)/L45[lower-alpha 1] guns in a single turret forward of the conning tower and a pair 120 mm (4.7 in)/L10 howitzers in the rear turret. They also mounted a pair of 66 mm (2.6 in)/L26 anti-aircraft guns, two 47 mm (1.9 in)/L44 guns, and seven machine guns.[1] The maximum range of her Škoda 120 mm (4.7 in)L/45 guns was 15 kilometres (9.3 mi).[3] Her armour consisted of belt and bulkheads 40 mm (1.6 in) thick, deck armour 25 mm (0.98 in) thick, and her conning tower, gun turrets and cupolas were 50 mm (2.0 in) thick.[1]

Ships

Ship Builder[1] Laid down[1] Launched[1] Commissioned[1] Fate
Temes (II) Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino, Linz 1914 1915 9 July 1915 Scuttled, 11/12 April 1941[4]
Sava 1915 31 May 1915 15 September 1915 Scrapped?

Notes

  1. L/45 denotes the length of the gun. In this case, the L/45 gun is 45 calibre, meaning that the gun was 45 times as long as the diameter of its bore.

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