She was the former Austrian Bodrog launched in March 1904 at Budapest. With a measurement of 380 tons were her dimensions 183¾ x 31¼ x 4 feet. The engines supplied 1.200 hp (designed) allowing a speed of 9 knots. The coal bunker capacity was 62 tons. The armament in Yugoslavian service consisted of 2-4.7” guns, 1-4;7” howitzer, 1-6,6cm anti aircraft gun and 2 machineguns. She had a 1½” thick armour belt and the bulkheads were protected by similar thickness, further more a 1” deck and the gun turrets and conning tower were protected by 1½-3: thick armour. As part of the Yugoslavian Danube flotilla served she on 6 April 1941 during the German invasion as a floating river anti aircraft battery and scuttled by her own crew on 12 April in the port of Zemun. Croatia salvaged her and she was decommissioned until scuttled by her crew at Slavoski Brod on 8/9 September 1944. After the Second World was she salvaged and decommissioned until being stricken in 1959. The next three years served she in in the merchant marine. According to the website http://www.cityofart.net/bship/sm_monitors_afterlife.html#bodrog-hulk is the hull of the Bodrog nowadays still used as a floating magazine/ammunition hulk by her owner Heroj Pinki at the port of Novi Sad, Serbia.
