Temes-class monitor

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).

A 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)
Installed power	1,400 ihp (1,000 kW) 2 Yarrow water-tube boilers
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	Belt and bulkheads: 40 mm (1.6 in) Deck: 25 mm (0.98 in) Conning tower: 75 mm (3.0 in) Gun turrets: 40 mm (1.6 in)

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
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

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.