Former Austrian Körös laid down of the shipyard Danubius, Budapest in 1880 and not earlier launched and completed as in 1892.. With a displacement of 44o tons were her dimensions 177 1/6 x 29½ 3’. The engines were designed to supply 1.200 hp allowing a speed of 10 knots. Coal bunker capacity 80 tons. In Yugoslavian service was she armed with 2-4.7” guns, 2-9 pdr guns and 2 machine guns. The armour consisted of a 2” thick belt, a ¾” thick deck while the turrets and gunning tower were protected by 3” respectively 2”. Her crew numbered 79-80 men. Although in 1918-1919 already temporarily manned by Yugoslavia as part of the Danube flotilla was she officially purchased on 15 April 1920. On 31 December 1918 was she interned. Scuttled in the nigh of 12 April 1941 on the river Sava was she the same year salvaged by the Germans and after being repaired commissioned as the Bosna as part of the Croatian Danube flotilla until she was lost in June 1944 when hitting a mine in the river Una, Bosanski-Nova.
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Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Yugoslavian river monitor Morava (1892) 1918->1941 (1944)
Former Austrian Körös laid down of the shipyard Danubius, Budapest in 1880 and not earlier launched and completed as in 1892.. With a displacement of 44o tons were her dimensions 177 1/6 x 29½ 3’. The engines were designed to supply 1.200 hp allowing a speed of 10 knots. Coal bunker capacity 80 tons. In Yugoslavian service was she armed with 2-4.7” guns, 2-9 pdr guns and 2 machine guns. The armour consisted of a 2” thick belt, a ¾” thick deck while the turrets and gunning tower were protected by 3” respectively 2”. Her crew numbered 79-80 men. Although in 1918-1919 already temporarily manned by Yugoslavia as part of the Danube flotilla was she officially purchased on 15 April 1920. On 31 December 1918 was she interned. Scuttled in the nigh of 12 April 1941 on the river Sava was she the same year salvaged by the Germans and after being repaired commissioned as the Bosna as part of the Croatian Danube flotilla until she was lost in June 1944 when hitting a mine in the river Una, Bosanski-Nova.
