Austro-Hungarian Danube Flotilla

[dorupantos]

I wan't to enforce this thread (AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN NAVY SHIPS AND CREWS) with a special class of ships that operated on Danube before , during and after WW1 (serving in others navy) the DANUBE RIVER MONITORS . There were very nice ships and they are still a model for today river-warships !

[dorupantos]

Here are old pics of AH Danube monitors Bodrog , Bosna , Leitha and Szamos .

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Postcards from the golden days of river monitors !

[John O'Callaghan]

Hi Dorupantos! Wonderful postcards and momentoes of a time gone by.Until I joined this forum I had never realised the way some naval activities were such a part of a societies life.I doubt that we would use the photos in such a way these days.
Cheers John O'C.

[John Odom]

Beautiful pictures. I never knew that such a flotilla existed. There is SO much to learn.

[qprdave]

Some WWI reports that appeared in the London Times referring to the Danube Monitors

Dates published in the Filename

[patroclus]

Hello dorupantos:

A wonderful collection of photographs, most of which I have never seen before. Thank you.

[dorupantos]

I found a top-made model of un Austro-Hungarian Danube monitor , pic taken in a museum in WIEN . Unfourtounelly the monitor is verry armed for WW1 , and I don't know his name . If anyone could elucidate me I will be grateful (you know I'm big fan of river monitors)!

[dorupantos]

You can see more photos of Danube-monitors on thread "Romanian Royal Navy" , in RRN served SEVEN! monitors built in Austro-Hungaria .

[dorupantos]

Dear JOHN O'CALLAGHAN,
JOHN ODOM,
QPR DAVE,
PATROCLUS,
and others,
THANK YOU !
for your interest of this special class of warships !

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Austro-Hungarian monitors in Belgrad at the beginning of WW1 .

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Austro-Hungarian monitor KOROS .

[Vegaskip]

Hi Dorupantos, thanks for sharing your photos, like John Odom I didn't know of these ships and the people who sailed them, almost like another world.
regards

[Alex Shenec]

Hi.

Some more photo.

"Bodrog"

[Alex Shenec]

Other monitors.

Best regards

Alex

[Vegaskip]

The more I look at the ships on this thread the more amazed I am. The center one above , looks like it could trundle up a beach and be come a Tank!.
Thanks for posting
regards

[dorupantos]

DEAR VEGASKIP !
In our days Romanian Navy monitors are actually like tanks . They are armed with 100 mm antitank guns , multiple rocket-launchers ,antiaircraft missiles and verry heavy machine-guns . They also can put ashore trucks or other millitary vehicols if it is necesary .

[dorupantos]

Magnificent model of AH Danube monitor TEMES !

[dorupantos]

Another pics of monitor SMS LEITHA !

[dorupantos]

Another pic of monitor TEMES .

[barthez]

I found a top-made model of un Austro-Hungarian Danube monitor , pic taken in a museum in WIEN . Unfourtounelly the monitor is verry armed for WW1 , and I don't know his name . If anyone could elucidate me I will be grateful (you know I'm big fan of river monitors)!

Hullo,
This is my first post I am ex Royal Navy and build RC model warships. Initialy interested in Modern ships, however I built an RN River class gun boat and have been keen on Monitors and gun boats ever since.
Dorupantos- That model is of a 1250 ton monitor the plan of which can be found here It was a concept only the plan was drawn, there are scant details about it. I was off work a few years ago and decided to learn to use my CAD program and used the free plan as basis for my own plan and built a 1/48th RC model.
I have a few pics here [URL="http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1277175#post15571001" ("http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/"[/URL).
I have another monitor The Leitha part built which is next on my list of projects. I have never seen some of the boats on this post, some of them would make good models, I will have to do more research and add to my project list.
Bart

[Don Boyer]

Doropantos:

For those of us language-impaired, it would be really nice to have the names of those monitors depicted which are not named. While I was aware that there had been many river montiors from your country and others nearby, I never knew there were so many with such varied careers, and they seldom feature in good photographs in any of the navy annuals of the day. Would be nice for us to know their names.

Thanks for such fascinating posts!

Regards,

[dorupantos]

More photos of Austro-Hungarian Danube ships (Donauflottille) .

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Pics of AH monitor SMS KOROS .

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After WW1 AH monitor BODROG served in Yugoslavian Navy as monitor SAVA .

[dorupantos]

AH Danube monitor SMS MAROS .

[dorupantos]

Drawings of AH Danube monitors .

[dorupantos]

Sorry I forgot to atach the drawings !!!

[dorupantos]

And two AH monitors on the bottom of Danube !

[dorupantos]

The Hungarians started the reconstruction of one of most beloved monitor , the monitor LEITHA ( in Hungarian LAJTA ) .
Congratulations !!!
My countrymens had cut into peaces SEVEN ! historic ships of this class .
Once again Congratulations and I wait LAJTA restauration completed !

[dorupantos]

Monitor SMS KOROS .

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Monitor SMS SZAMOS .

[arpaduk]

The picture here is of the newly restored Danube Monitor "Leitha" at her naming ceremony outside the Parliament building in Budapest on August 20th 2010. She will now be used as a Hungarian museum ship although I don't know where.

[Alex Shenec]

Hi.

"TEMES" after 1917.

Best regards

Alex

[Dainesh]

Hi All,

You can see the Lajta in Neszmény, but now it is next to the Erzsébet híd (Elisbeth Bridge), Pest side.

http://filmhiradok.nava.hu/watch.php?id=5266

I had found this you can see the SMS Körös, and SMS Fogas (I think), some hydroplanes on the Danube, and a little Danube submarine, above all the old Erzsébet híd.

Have fun :)

Dénes (from UK)



The picture here is of the newly restored Danube Monitor "Leitha" at her naming ceremony outside the Parliament building in Budapest on August 20th 2010. She will now be used as a Hungarian museum ship although I don't know where.

[patroclus]

Hi All,

You can see the Lajta in Neszmény, but now it is next to the Erzsébet híd (Elisbeth Bridge), Pest side.

http://filmhiradok.nava.hu/watch.php?id=5266

I had found this you can see the SMS Körös, and SMS Fogas (I think), some hydroplanes on the Danube, and a little Danube submarine, above all the old Erzsébet híd.

Have fun :)

Dénes (from UK)



What a brilliant video! Thank you for posting this.:)

[Dainesh]

Hi Bart,

I think we can help each other :)
I have some nice things about these ships, and I have several friends who research these ships. So I can help you, and I'm interested in the Royal Navy things :)

http://filmhiradok.nava.hu/watch.php?id=5266

I really do not know that is help to you, but:
http://www.nostalgianavy.hu/hungarian.htm

If you would like something more please drop me some lines to: Denes.Kavai@gmail.com

THX
Denes

Hullo,
This is my first post I am ex Royal Navy and build RC model warships. Initialy interested in Modern ships, however I built an RN River class gun boat and have been keen on Monitors and gun boats ever since.
Dorupantos- That model is of a 1250 ton monitor the plan of which can be found here It was a concept only the plan was drawn, there are scant details about it. I was off work a few years ago and decided to learn to use my CAD program and used the free plan as basis for my own plan and built a 1/48th RC model.
I have a few pics here [URL="http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1277175#post15571001" ("http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/"[/URL).
I have another monitor The Leitha part built which is next on my list of projects. I have never seen some of the boats on this post, some of them would make good models, I will have to do more research and add to my project list.
Bart

[dorupantos]

More pics of AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN monitors !

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Pics with AH monitor BODROG and the crew of this ship .

[dorupantos]

Oh Alzheimer !!!

[dorupantos]

More pics of AH Danube monitors !

[dorupantos]

AH monitors on Danube .

[dorupantos]

Monitors Temes , Bodrog & Romanian Basarabia (ex-Temes) !

[patroclus]

Monitors Temes , Bodrog & Romanian Basarabia (ex-Temes) !

In the drawings of BASARABIA, the objects mounted on top of the turrets are machine guns perhaps? I cannot see them clearly.

[MUGURCL]

@Dorupantos:
ARDEAL - ex. KUK TEMES
BASARABIA - ex. KUK INN
BUCOVINA - ex. KUK SAVA

@Patroclus

On the top of each turets there were two anti aircraft machine guns.

[patroclus]

@Dorupantos:
ARDEAL - ex. KUK TEMES
BASARABIA - ex. KUK INN
BUCOVINA - ex. KUK SAVA

@Patroclus

On the top of each turets there were two anti aircraft machine guns.

Thank you for the confirmation.

[dorupantos]

AH Monitors in WW1 !