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SAVA river monitor (1904/1941)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Sava (ex-Bodrog)   903 Danubius, Budapest, Austria-Hungary 1903 12.4.1904 11/1904 // 1941 sunk 9.9.1944


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

442

Displacement full, t

470

Length, m

57.7

Breadth, m

9.50

Draught, m

1.20

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 boilers

Power, h. p.

1400

Max speed, kts

13

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)500(9.5)
Armour, mm

belt: 40, deck: 25, CT: 75

Armament

2 x 1 - 120/33 G. L/35 K.04, 1 x 1 - 120/8 Haub. L/10, 1 x 1 - 66/16 G. L/18, 5 x 1 - 8.3/66

Complement

86



Standard scale images


<i>Sava</i> 1941
Sava 1941


Project history

Former Austro-Hungarian. Bodrog 31.10.1918 ran ashore at Visnitsa, was interned and entered Yugoslavian Danube flotilla, Temes was interned some later. 15.4.1920 by results of division of Austro-Hungarian fleet she was officially transferred to Yugoslavia and renamed Sava. On the night of 12.4.1941 Sava was scuttled on Danube in Beograd. In 1941 she was salvaged by German wreckers, repaired and commissioned by Croatian Danube flotilia as Sava

Ship protection

Machinery had 40mm vertical and 25mm horizontal protection.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Sava was sunk 9.9.1944 by Yugoslavian artillery on river Sava at Bosanski-Brod. Later she was salvaged, repaired after war and served under Yugoslavian flag till 1959-1962.