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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)

The Temes class was a class of originally Austro-Hungarian river monitor warships used during World War I. A notable member was Bodrog (later the Yugoslav monitor Sava).

Description

They were armed with two 120 mm (4.7 in)L/35 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. 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). 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.

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History

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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.

References

1. Pawlik, Christ & Winkler 1989, p. 60.
2. Greger 1976, p. 10.

Bibliography

• Frampton, Viktor; Sieche, Erwin & Stewart, Charles L. (2006). "Question 22/04: Austro-Hungarian Danube River Monitors". Warship International. XLIII (3): 239–243. ISSN 0043-0374.
• Greger, René (1976). Austro-Hungarian Warships of World War I. London: Allan. ISBN 978-0-7110-0623-2.
• Pawlik, Georg; Christ, Heinz; Winkler, Herbert (1989). Die K.u.K. Donauflottille 1870–1918 [The K.u.K. Danube Flotilla 1870–1918] (in German). Graz, Austria: H. Weishaupt Verlag. ISBN 978-3-900310-45-5.

v t e Temes-class river monitors
Austro-Hungarian Navy	Temes Bodrog
Royal Romanian Navy	Ardeal (ex-Temes, ex-Drina)
Royal Yugoslav Navy	Sava (ex-Bodrog)
Preceded by: Körös class Followed by: Enns class
List of river monitors of the Austro-Hungarian Navy

• Monitor classes
• World War I naval ships of Austria-Hungary
• World War I monitors
• Temes-class river monitors