SMS Ulan

SMS Ulan was one of the dozen Huszár-class destroyers built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She served in World War I and was handed over to Greece afterwards. She served in the Royal Hellenic Navy under the name of Smyrni until 1931 when the ship was withdrawn from service and scrapped.

History
Austria-Hungary
Name	Ulan
Namesake	Uhlan
Builder	Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino
Laid down	27 September 1905
Launched	8 April 1906
Completed	21 September 1906
Fate	Transferred to Greece as Smyrni in 1920, scrapped in 1931
General characteristics
Class and type	Huszár-class destroyer
Displacement	390 t (380 long tons)
Length	68.4 m (224 ft 5 in) (o/a)
Beam	6.25 m (20 ft 6 in)
Draught	1.8 m (5 ft 11 in)
Installed power	4 × Yarrow boilers 6,000 ihp (4,500 kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 triple-expansion engines
Speed	28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Range	1,200 nmi (2,200 km; 1,400 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	70
Armament	1 × single 66 mm (2.6 in) gun 7 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) guns 2 × single 45 cm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes

Operational history

Shortly after the outbreak of World War I, Ulan took part in August 1914 in the blockade of the Montenegrin coast. On 16 August 1914, the ship patrolled there with the cruiser Zenta and were surprised by an Allied fleet. Under the orders of the Zenta's commander, Captain Paul Pachner, Ulan managed to escape the ensuing battle.

On the night of 2 March 1915, Ulan took part in an expedition to the port of Antivari (along with her sisters Csikós and Streiter and torpedo boats 57T, 66F and 67F), which ended with shelling and laying mines at the port and the destruction of the Montenegrin royal yacht Rumija.^[1]