SMS Szamos
Szamos in 1917 | |
| History | |
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| Austria-Hungary | |
| Name | Szamos |
| Namesake | Szamos River |
| Builder | Schönichen & Hartmann, Budapest |
| Laid down | 1891 |
| Launched | 25 August 1892 |
| Commissioned | 1893 |
| Out of service | 6 November 1918 |
| Fate | Transferred to the Hungarian People's Republic |
| Hungarian People's Republic | |
| Acquired | 6 November 1918 |
| Out of service | 31 December 1918 |
| Fate | Assigned to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, 1920 |
| Kingdom of Yugoslavia | |
| Name | Tivadar |
| Acquired | 1920 |
| Fate | Disarmed and sold for service as a crane barge, January 1921 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Körös-class river monitor |
| Displacement | 448 t (441 long tons) |
| Length | 54 m (177 ft 2 in) |
| Beam | 9 m (29 ft 6 in) |
| Draught | 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in) |
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| Propulsion | 2 screws; 2 Triple-expansion steam engines |
| Speed | 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 77 officers and enlisted men |
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Szamos was one of two Körös-class river monitors built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy during the 1890s. Completed in 1893, she participated in the First World War of 1914–1918 and the subsequent Hungarian–Czechoslovak War of 1918–1919.