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| Name | Leitha |
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| Builders | Pest Flumaner Schiffbau, Budapest |
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| Preceded by | None |
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| Succeeded by | Körös class |
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| Built | 1870–1872 |
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| In service | 1872–1918 |
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| Completed | 2 |
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| Retired | 1 |
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| Scrapped | 1 |
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| Type | River monitor |
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| Length | 50.5 m (165 ft 8 in) |
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| Beam | 8.65 m (28 ft 5 in) |
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| Draught | 1.3 m (4 ft 3 in) |
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| Installed power | 700 ihp (520 kW) |
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| Propulsion | 2 screws; 2 double-expansion steam engines |
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| Speed | 8.3 knots (15.4 km/h; 9.6 mph) |
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| Armament |
- As built: 2 × single 15 cm (5.9 in) cannon
- 2 × 4-barreled 19 mm (0.7 in) Nordenfelt guns
- After 1892:
- 1915: 1 × single 120 mm gun
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The Leitha class consisted of two river monitors built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy that saw service during World War I.
Ships
Citations
Citations
Bibliography
Bibliography
- Branfill-Cook, Roger (2018). River Gunboats: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-365-0.
- Dodson, Aidan & Cant, Serena (2020). Spoils of War: The Fate of Enemy Fleets after Two World Wars. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5267-4198-1.
- Freivogel, Zvonimir (2020). Warships of the Royal Yugoslav Navy 1918–1945. Vol. 1. Zagreb, Croatia: Despot Infinitus. ISBN 978-953-8218-72-9.
- Greger, René (1976). Austro-Hungarian Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0623-7.
