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HUNGARIAN RIVER FLOTILLA (HUNGARY)

RIVER FIGHTING SHIPS

INN river monitor (1915/1919)

sister-ship Enns 1917

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Inn, 4.1919- Újvidek, 7.1919- Marx     Ganz & Danubius, Újpest 11/1913 2/1915 4/1915 // 3.1919 interned by Yugoslavia 11.1919, to Romania 4.1920 (Basarabia)

 

Displacement normal, t

536

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

57.9

Breadth, m

10.3

Draught, m

1.30

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

1500

Max speed, kts

13

Fuel, t

coal
Endurance, nm(kts) 700(10)

Armour, mm

side: 40, deck: 25, CT: 50

Armament

1 x 2 - 120/42 G. L/45, 3 x 1 - 120/8 Haub. L/10, 2 x 1 - 66/47 G. L/50 BAG, 6 x 1 - 8.80

Complement

95

Project history: Development of the Temes class with one twin turret. Austro-Hungarian Inn 22.9.1917 was sunk lower Braila on Danube by a mine; 18.11.1917 she was salvaged and towed off into repair to Budapest but repair remained unfinished till the end of war. 21.3.1919 she passed under control of Hungarian Soviet republic

Ship protection: Machinery had 40mm vertical and 25mm horizontal protection.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: 13.4.1919 Inn was renamed Újvidek; late July, 1919 after repair as Marx she was commissioned by Hungarian Danube flotilia. In November, 1919 ship was interned by Government of Yugoslavia at Novi Sad. Under the treaty on division of Austro-Hungarian fleet ship was transferred to Romania 15.4.1920 and renamed Basarabia.

© Ivan Gogin, 2015