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FOGAS armoured river gunboats (1916/1920-1929)


Ships


Names Builders Commissioned Losses Transfers Discarding

Fogas (ex-i)

Birago (ex-Siofok, ex-Csuka, ex-k)

Danubius, Budapest, Austria-Hungary: Fogas, Birago

1916 // 4.1920: Fogas

1916 // 7.1929: Birago

Birago (German Birago 23.3.1938)

Hungary, 10.1927: Fogas (Gödöllö)

none



Technical data


Displacement standard, t

60

Displacement full, t

?

Length, m

36.0

Breadth, m

4.60

Draught, m

0.90

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

800

Max speed, kts

12

Fuel, t

oil?

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armour, mm

belt: 5, deck: 4, turret: 5, CT: 5

Armament

1 x 1 - 66/27 G. L/30 K.09, 2 x 1 - 8.3/66

Complement

27



Standard scale images


<i>Birago </i>1938
Birago 1938
<i>Fogas</i> 1920
Fogas 1920


Project history

Former Austro-Hungarian river armoured gunboats i and k, built at Budapest in 1915-1916. In 1916 renamed Fogas and Csuka. 15.4.1920, as result of partition of Austro-Hungarian Navy, Fogas was transferred to Austria. Sistership Csuka (ex-k) at partition of Austro-Hungarian Navy in 1920 headed out to Hungary, was named Siofok. Siofok 24.7.1929 has been sold to Austria in exchange for Barsch and renamed Birago

Ship protection

Bullet-proof.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

6.10.1927 Fogas was sold to Hungary and renamed Gödöllö. Birago before beginning of WWII 23.3.1938 after Anschlüß was commissioned by Germans.