Tátra-class destroyer


The Tátra class was a group of six destroyers built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy shortly before the First World War.

Design and description

By the last years of the first decade of the 20th century, Admiral Graf Rudolf Montecuccoli, head of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, recognized that the latest s were already obsolete in comparison to larger and faster foreign destroyers. His 1910 expansion plan called for six new large destroyers and their construction was awarded to a Hungarian shipyard to secure Hungarian parliamentary approval of the expansion program.
The Tátra-class ships had an overall length of, a beam of, and a maximum draft of. They displaced at normal load and at deep load. The ships had a complement of 105 officers and enlisted men.
The Tátras were powered by two AEG-Curtiss steam turbine sets, each driving a single propeller shaft using steam provided by six Yarrow boilers. Four of the boilers were oil-fired while the remaining pair used coal. The turbines, designed to produce, were intended to give the ships a speed of. The ships carried enough oil and coal to give them a range of at.
The main armament of the Tátra-class destroyers consisted of two 50-caliber Škoda Works K10 guns, one each fore and aft of the superstructure in single mounts. Their secondary armament consisted of six 45-caliber Škoda 7 cm guns| guns. Two of these were on anti-aircraft mountings. They were also equipped with four torpedo tubes in two twin rotating mountings amidships.

Ships

Service history

Six further destroyers were authorised in May 1914 to increase the number of destroyers, but construction had not started at the outbreak of the war. Four units were authorised in 1916 to replace the wartime losses. These four ships were named Triglav II, Lika II, Dukla and Uzsok and classified as the Ersatz Triglav class.
After the war, three vessels—Triglav, Lika, and Uzsok—were ceded to Italy and one, Dukla, to France. The last vessel was scrapped in 1936.