The Tátra class was a class

Ship class

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 of destroyer

Destroyer

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s built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy

Austro-Hungarian Navy

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 before the First World War.

History

The Tátra-class comprised six ships - Tátra, Balaton, Csepel, Lika, Triglav and Orjen. Built by Porto Ré, a subsidiary of Danubius & Ganz, they were launched in the years 1912 and 1913. Triglav and Lika were sunk by mine

Naval mine

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s near Durazzo on 29 December 1915.

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 Replacement Triglav Class. They were also built by Danubius and launched in 1917, so their wartime careers were rather short. Propelled by two steam turbines these four vessels were the most modern ships of the Austro-Hungarian Navy.

The ships were of 85.28 m (279.8 ft) overall length with a beam of 7.8 m (25.6 ft). Their design displacement was 880 tons with a full load displacement of 1050 tons. Powered by two AEG-Curtiss turbines producing 20600 shp, driving two shafts. They were able to achieve speeds of up to 33.8 knots (66.2 km/h). Of the six Yarrow

Yarrow Shipbuilders

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 boilers, four were oil

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-fired and the other two capable of operating with either oil or coal

Coal

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. Their armament was two 100 mm 50 calibre guns. Secondary armament was provided by six 66 mm 45 calibre guns. Two of these were on special anti-aircraft mountings. The gun armament was completed by a single 17.8 mm (0.700787401574803 in) machine gun. Their main offensive capability came from four 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tube

Torpedo tube

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s mounted in pairs. After the war, three vessels—Tiglav, Lika, and Uzsok—were ceded to Italy

Italy

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 and one, the Dukla, to France

France

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. The last vessel was scrapped in 1936.