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Ships

Names	Builders	Commissioned	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
Honved (ex-№... [No...]) Hüszar (ex-№... [No...]) Tüzér (ex-№... [No...])	K. Revenskiy, Odessa, Russia: Honved Vega Bureau, Borgo, Russia: Hüszar, Tüzér	1916 // 1.1919: Honved, Hüszar, Tüzér	Hüszar (1942), Honved (fate unknown), Tüzér (fate unknown)	none	none

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	Honved: 18 Hüszar, Tüzér: 15
Displacement full, t	?
Length, m	Honved: 15.2 Hüszar, Tüzér: 16.0
Breadth, m	Honved: 3.05 Hüszar, Tüzér: 2.75
Draught, m	Honved: 0.70 Hüszar, Tüzér: 0.61
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Stirling gasoline engines
Power, h. p.	100
Max speed, kts	11.5
Fuel, t	petrol 1.9
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armour, mm	belt: 7, deck: 5, turret: 7, CT: 7
Armament	3 x 1 - 8.3/66
Complement	9

Standard scale images

Project history

Former Russian armour river boats-scouts, ordered in 1915 by War department and never served in the Russian Imperial Navy. They belonged to two very similar series built by "Vega-Bureau" at Borgo (Finland) and Revensky Factory in Odessa. Some boats in 1918 were captured by Austro-Hungarian troops, to the beginning of WWII three of them (1 built by Revensky and 2 by "Vega-Bureau") still remained as part of Hungarian Danube flotilla.

Ship protection

bullet-proof.

Modernizations

1930s, all: engines were replaced by Ganz-Jendrassek (140hp, 13.5kts)

Naval service

Hüszar was lost in 1942 after internal explosion, the fate of remaining boats after 1944 is unknown.