Английская Википедия:Enns-class river monitor
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The Enns-class river monitors were built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy during the mid-1910s. The two ships of the class were assigned to the Danube Flotilla and participated in World War I. The ships survived the war and were transferred to Romania and the newly created Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia) as reparations.
Description and construction
The ships had an overall length of Шаблон:Convert, a beam of Шаблон:Convert, and a normal draught of Шаблон:Convert. They displaced Шаблон:Convert, and their crew consisted of 95 officers and enlisted men.Шаблон:Sfn The Enns-class ships were powered by two triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one shaft, using steam generated by two Yarrow boilers.Шаблон:Sfn The engines were rated at Шаблон:Convert and were designed to reach a top speed of Шаблон:Convert. They carried Шаблон:Convert of fuel oil.Шаблон:Sfn
The main armament of the Enns-class river monitors was a pair of Шаблон:Convert/L45Шаблон:Refn guns in a single turret forward of the conning tower and three Шаблон:Convert/L10 howitzers to the rear, in individual armored cupolas. They also mounted two individual [[Škoda 7 cm guns|Шаблон:Convert]]/L50 BAG anti-aircraft guns, and six machine guns.Шаблон:Sfn The maximum range of their Škoda Шаблон:ConvertL/45 guns was Шаблон:Convert.Шаблон:Sfn Their armour consisted of belt and bulkheads Шаблон:Convert thick, deck armour Шаблон:Convert thick, and their conning tower, gun turrets and cupolas were Шаблон:Convert thick.Шаблон:Sfn
Ships
Ship | New name | BuilderШаблон:Sfn | Laid downШаблон:Sfn | LaunchedШаблон:Sfn | CommissionedШаблон:Sfn | Fate |
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SMS Enns | Drava | Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino, Linz | 1912 | September 1914 | 17 October 1914 | Scuttled, 11/12 April 1941Шаблон:Sfn |
Шаблон:SMS | Besarabia | Ganz Danubius, Budapest | 1913 | 25 February 1915 | 11 April 1915 | Scrapped? |
Careers
During World War II, Besarabia was the only Romanian river monitor out of seven to be fitted with new turrets. This took place between 1942 and 1943, while she was being completely rebuilt and up-gunned at Galați. Her armament ultimately consisted of two twin 120 mm naval guns, six 37 mm AA guns and four 20 mm AA guns.[1] She also had a range of 690 nautical miles, more than enough to travel across the greatest East-West extent of the Black Sea, which was 635 nautical miles (the Black Sea was the area of operations of the World War II Romanian Navy).[2]
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