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Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Cattaro (ex-Далмација [Dalmacija], ex-Niobe)			A G Weser, Bremen, Germany	30.8.1898	18.7.1899	25.6.1900 // 17.4.1941	captured by Germany 11.9.1943 (Niobe)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2360
Displacement full, t	2953
Length, m	104.4 wl 105.0 oa
Breadth, m	12.2
Draught, m	5.31
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 8 Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.	8000
Max speed, kts	16
Fuel, t	coal 625
Endurance, nm(kts)	4000(11)
Armour, mm	steel / Krupp steel - deck: 25 - 20, slopes: 50, CT: 80
Armament	6 x 1 - 83/53 Škoda M.27, 6 x 1 - 20/70 Scotti-Isotta Fraschini 1939
Complement	329

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Project history

Ex-German Gazelle-class small cruiser was purchased by Yugoslavia 24.6.1925 and rebuilt at Deutsche Werke in Kiel in 1925-1926 (fore part was rebuilt, cruiser received new stem, forecastle deck had new form, superstructures and masts were also rebuilt), ship was commissioned again 3.9.1926. When Yugoslavia surrendered, ship was captured at Kotor and commissioned by Regia Marina as gunboat.

Ship protection

25mm protective deck with 50mm slopes protected machinery, outside machine spaces 20mm deck had turtleback form. Engines had 80mm glacises. CT had 80mm sides and 20mm roof.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

 Cattaro 11.9.1943 was captured at Pola by German troops, renamed Niobe 6.12.1943, was wrecked off Silba 19.12.1943, finally sunk there by British / Yugoslavian MTB276 and MTB298, salvaged in 1947 and broken up in 1949.