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MORAVA river monitor (1892/1918)


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Morava 1924  

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Морава [Morava] (ex-Körös)     Danubius, Budapest, Austria-Hungary 1880 1892 1892 // 12.1918 scuttled 12.4.1941


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

448

Displacement full, t

?

Length, m

54.0

Breadth, m

9.00

Draught, m

1.20

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 boilers

Power, h. p.

1200

Max speed, kts

10

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)400(7)
Armour, mm

belt: 50, deck: 19, CT: 75

Armament

2 x 1 - 120/31 G. L/35 C.87, 2 x 1 - 66/37 SFK L/42 (Skoda), 4 x 1 - 8.3/66

Complement

84



Standard scale images


<i>Morava</i> 1918
Morava 1918


Graphics


<i>Morava </i>1924  
Morava 1924  


Project history

Former Austro-Hungarian Körös. 31.12.1918 she was interned and entered Yugoslavian Danube flotilla. 15.4.1920 by results of division of Austro-Hungarian fleet she was officially transferred to Yugoslavia and renamed Morava.

Ship protection

Machinery had 50mm vertical and 19mm horizontal protection.

Modernizations

1924: - 1 x 1 - 66/37; + 1 x 1 - 15/80.

Naval service

On the night 12.4.1941 Morava was scuttled on river Sava. In 1941 she was salvaged by German wreckers, repaired and entered Croatian Danube flotilla as Bosna. Bosna was lost in June, 1944 on river Una at Bosanski-Novi on a mine.