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K-U-K MARINE - AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN NAVY (AUSTRIA-HUNGARY)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

A motor minesweepers (1917/1918)

Tüzér 1930s

Names

a (ex-¹... [No...])

b (ex-¹... [No...])

c (ex-¹... [No...])

d (ex-¹... [No...])

Builders

K. Revenskiy, Odessa, Russia: 2 boats

Vega Bureau, Borgo, Russia: 2 boats

Commissioned

1916 // 1918: a, b, c, d

Losses

none

Transfers

Hungary, 1920: 3 boats (Honved, Hüszar, Tüzér)

Yugoslavia, 1920: 1 boat (Â2 [V2])

Discarding

none

 

Displacement standard, t

2 boats: 18

2 boats: 15

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

2 boats: 15.2

2 boats: 16.0

Breadth, m

2 boats: 3.05

2 boats: 2.75

Draught, m

2 boats: 0.70

2 boats: 0.61

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Stirling gasoline engines

Power, h. p.

100

Max speed, kts

11.5

Fuel, t

petrol 1.9

Armour, mm

belt: 7, deck: 5, turret: 7, CT: 7

Armament

2 x 1 - 8.80, mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement

9

Project history: Former Russian armour river boats-scouts, ordered in 1915 by War department and never served in the Russian Imperial Navy. They belonged to two very similar series built by "Vega-Bureau" at Borgo (Finland) and Revensky Factory in Odessa. Some boats in 1918 were captured by Austro-Hungarian troops.

Ship protection: bullet-proof.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

© Ivan Gogin, 2014