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Donau

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Donau			Marinearsenal Pola	10/1888	28.6.1893	8/1894	accommodation ship 1906

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	2306
Displacement full, t
Length, m	70.0 wl
Breadth, m	12.8
Draught, m	5.56
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 2-cyl VC, cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	1300
Max speed, kts	10
Fuel, t	coal 270
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	10 x 1 - 120/31 L/35 C.87, 1 x 1 - 66/16 G. L/18, 4 x 1 - 25/41 Nordenfeldt
Complement	333

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Project history

This conversion is a typical example of an 'official reconstruction' as understood in the Austro-Hungarian Navy. In fact the hull of the frigate Donau (ii) was scrapped and only the machinery and some equipment from the old ship were used in the new one. Like her forerunner she was designed for long cruises and cadet training.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

In 1906 the obsolete ship was disarmed and used as an accommodation and training ship for cadets. After the First World War she went to Yugoslavia as war reparation and was renamed Sibenik. In 1941 ship renamed Krka was captured by Germans, her later fate is unknown.