| Austro-Hungarian "Huszár" Class |
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| The Japanese navy had been highly satisfied with its destroyers constructed by Yarrow-Poplar, London. Consequently the A.-H. Navy ordered from Yarrow a 400–t/27 knot torpedo vessel. Condition was that the engine had to be identical with the one of the simultaneously ordered 200-t torpedo boat (Kaiman-type), thus being inter–changeable. Compared with the Japanese design, bridge and fore funnel were moved aft to permit placement of the deck torpedo-tube behind the whale-back forecastle. The other boats to follow should be replicas of the ‘sample’, and be built, on a license basis, by domestic shipyards. A pre-contract for six torpedo-vessels (e.g. destroyers) and 18 torpedo boats was signed with STT on 28 November 1904. | |
| Ships of the Huszár-class resembled to a large extent the Ikazuchi/Akatsuki-class, built by Yarrow for Japan, and were on level with international destroyer construction. The twelve boats were the Huszár, Ulan, Streiter, Wildfang, Scharfschütze, Uskoke, Turul, Pandur, Csikós, Reka, Velebit, and Dinara. | |
| The prototype ship Huszár foundered on a reef off the Bocche di Cattaro [Boka Kotorska] on 3 December 1908 and had to be written off as a total loss. It was replaced by a replica, the Huszár (II). All boats of this class got funnel extensions to protect the bridge crew from ejected ashes. Some boats also received additional reinforcements of the fore–ship’s whale–backs and stronger anchor bases. Replacement of the 47 mm cal 44 QFs by 70 mm cal 30 guns took place between 1910–13. In 1915, all boats received single 8 mm machine guns mounted on anti–aircraft pivots. The aft 70 mm cal 30 guns were replaced by a 7 cm cal 45 AA gun in 1918. It showed, during the war, that the units were not sea–worthy enough due to their low displacement, which limited their use during bad weather. |
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| Technical Data | Explanation of data sheets | |
| Laid down (Ulan): Launched: Commissioned: Displacement: Dimensions: Propulsion: Max. Speed: Fuel: Range: Crew: |
27 September 1905 at S.T.T. 8 April 1906 21 September 1906 390 / 420 ts 68.39 × 6.25 × 1.78/1.85 m 4 Yarrow wt boilers; 2 VTE; 2 shafts; 6,000 IHP 28.5 kts 90.6 t coal 500 nm/28 kts 5+65 |
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| Main: Minor: Torpedoes: Depth Charges: Mines: Searchlights: |
1x70 mm cal 45 7x47 mm cal 44 [7x1] 2×450 mm [2x1] ? ? 2x400 mm |
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