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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Sava (ex-Bodrog)		903	Danubius, Budapest, Austria-Hungary	1903	12.4.1904	11/1904 // 1941	sunk 9.9.1944

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	442
Displacement full, t	470
Length, m	57.7
Breadth, m	9.50
Draught, m	1.20
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 boilers
Power, h. p.	1400
Max speed, kts	13
Fuel, t	coal
Endurance, nm(kts)	500(9.5)
Armour, mm	belt: 40, deck: 25, CT: 75
Armament	2 x 1 - 120/33 G. L/35 K.04, 1 x 1 - 120/8 Haub. L/10, 1 x 1 - 66/16 G. L/18, 5 x 1 - 8.3/66
Complement	86

Standard scale images

Project history

Former Austro-Hungarian. Bodrog 31.10.1918 ran ashore at Visnitsa, was interned and entered Yugoslavian Danube flotilla, Temes was interned some later. 15.4.1920 by results of division of Austro-Hungarian fleet she was officially transferred to Yugoslavia and renamed Sava. On the night of 12.4.1941 Sava was scuttled on Danube in Beograd. In 1941 she was salvaged by German wreckers, repaired and commissioned by Croatian Danube flotilia as Sava

Ship protection

Machinery had 40mm vertical and 25mm horizontal protection.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Sava was sunk 9.9.1944 by Yugoslavian artillery on river Sava at Bosanski-Brod. Later she was salvaged, repaired after war and served under Yugoslavian flag till 1959-1962.