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Saturday 8 March 2014

Austrian monitor Körös 1891-1946 and Szamos 1892-’80s 20th century



Of the Körös-class. Körös built in 1891 and the Sazmos in 1892 at the United Schoenichen-Hartmann Shipyard, Machine&Boiler Works, Budapest, Hungary and commissioned in 1893-1894 with a displacement of 357,41 tons and as dimensions 54 (over all) x 9,00 (extreme) x 1,2 metres or 177’2½”x 29’6” x 3’11”. Designed by Josef Thiel and destined to serve as part of the Danube flotilla. The armament consisted of 2x1-12cm/4.7” Skoda breech loading rifles, placed in one turret on the fore and a second turret aft and further more 2-7cm/3“ Skoda guns and 2-8mm machine guns. One funnel. The 2 Yarrow boilers and Schichau triple expansion engine delivering 1.250 hp allowed a speed of 10 knots. Coal bunker capacity 80 tons. The armour consisted of a 5cm thick belt, while deck, conning tower and gun turrets were protected by respectively 1,9 cm, 4 cm and 7,5cm thick armour. Her dimensions after her conversion into a dredger were 59,5 x 9 x 0.979 x 2,2 (depth) metres and a fix point height of 10,26 metres. After the First World War were handed over to Hungary although with the condition that her armament was removed and used for commercial purposes. Sold in 1920 to Messrs. Fleischmann, Budapest, Hungary and converted into the dredger Tivardar. In 1938 became Delmár River Regulation Co. Ltd. At Budapest her new owner. After the Second World War becoming in 1849 government property (managed by the FOKA River Regulation and Dredging Co. at Budapest) the FK 202. In 1962 decommissioned and in the eighties sold to Yugoslave to be broken up. Her sister ship was after the First World War handed over to Yugoslavia and renamed Morava, as the Bosna in 1941 in Croatian navy, in June 1944 sunk when she hit a mine and broken up in 1945-1946.