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Zara 1898 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Zara			Marinearsenal Pola	8/1878	13.11.1879	6/1881	TS 1906, to Italy 1920
Spalato		139	STT, San Rocco	9/1878	30.8.1879	7/1880	TS 1910, to Italy 1920

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	838
Displacement full, t	852
Length, m	62.7 pp 67.2 oa
Breadth, m	8.20
Draught, m	3.70
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VC, 5 locomotive boilers
Power, h. p.	2600
Max speed, kts	14.3
Fuel, t	coal 150
Endurance, nm(kts)	1160(8.5)
Armament	4 x 1 - 87/22 G. L/24 M.75, 1 x 1 - 66/16 G. L/18, 2 x 5 - 25/41 Nordenfelt, 2 - 350 TT (bow), 1 x 1 - 350 TT
Complement	148

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Project history

Officially classified as "torpedo ship".

Modernizations

1887, both: - 1 x 1 - 350 TT; + 4 x 1 - 47/30 SFK L/33 H, 1 x 5 - 47/22 SFK L/25 H, 2 x 1 - 350 TT

1906, both: - 1 x 1 - 350 TT

1917: both were armed with 2 x 1 - 66/42 SFK L/45, 4 x 1 - 47/40 SFK L/44 S, 2 - 350 TT (bow), 1 x 1 - 350 TT

Naval service

Zara early in the century became a torpedo training vessel and in 1906 cadet instruction vessel. Spalato served from 1910 as a gunnery TS.

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