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Sava 1933 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.  

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Дрина [Drina] (ex-Temes)   902 Danubius, Budapest, Austria-Hungary 1/1903 26.3.1904 5/1905 // 12.1918 to Romania 4.1920 (Ardeal)
Сава [Sava] (ex-Bodrog)   903 Danubius, Budapest, Austria-Hungary 1903 12.4.1904 11/1904 // 10.1918 scuttled 12.4.1941, salvaged by Germans (Croatian Sava), sunk, salvaged and re-commissioned 1952, stricken 1962


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

Drina: 470

Sava: 442
Displacement full, t

Sava: 470?
Length, m

Drina: 60.3

Sava: 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

Drina: belt: 40, deck: 25, CT: 40

Sava: belt: 40, deck: 25, CT: 75
Armament

Drina: 2 x 1 - 120/33 G. L/35 K.04, 2 x 1 - 90/42 G. L/45 K.12 TAG/BAG, 2 x 1 - 47/40 L/44 (Skoda), 4 x 1 - 8.3/66

Sava: 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, 3 x 1 - 8.3/66
Complement

86 - 89


Standard scale images


<i>Drina</i> 1918
Drina 1918
<i>Sava</i> 1919
Sava 1919
<i>Sava</i> 1941
Sava 1941


Graphics


<i>Sava </i>1933 <i>Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.</i>  
Sava 1933 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.  


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. Drina (ex-Temes) was transferred to Romania.

Ship protection

Machinery had 40mm vertical and 25mm horizontal protection.

Modernizations

1952, Sava: was armed with 2 x 1 - 105/45 SK C/32, 3 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 6 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 7

Naval service

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

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.