SMS Tátra
Austro-Hungarian lead ship of Tatra-class / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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SMS Tátra[Note 1] was the lead ship of her class of six destroyers built for the kaiserliche und königliche Kriegsmarine (Austro-Hungarian Navy) shortly before the First World War. Completed in 1913, she helped to sink an Italian destroyer during the action off Vieste in May 1915 after Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary. Two months later the ship participated in an unsuccessful attempt to recapture a small island in the Central Adriatic Sea from the Italians. In November and early December Tátra was one of the ships conducting raids off the Albanian coast to interdict the supply lines between Italy and Albania. During the early stages of the 1st Battle of Durazzo in late December, the ship was tasked to tow her one of her sister ships that had been crippled by a mine. She was forced to abandon her sister when the Austro-Hungarians were spotted by a strong force of Allied ships and had to evade their pursuit. Tátra participated in several unsuccessful raids on the Otranto Barrage in 1917. She was transferred to Italy in 1920 in accordance with the peace treaties ending the war and renamed Fasana. The Regia Marina (Royal Italian Navy) used her for spare parts; she was discarded in 1923 and subsequently scrapped.
Tátra in 1913 | |
History | |
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Austria-Hungary | |
Name | Tátra |
Builder | Ganz-Danubius |
Laid down | 19 October 1911 |
Launched | 4 November 1912 |
Completed | 18 October 1913 |
Fate | Ceded to Italy, January 1920 |
Kingdom of Italy | |
Acquired | January 1920 |
Renamed | Fasana, 27 September 1920 |
Fate | Discarded, 5 July 1923 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Tátra-class destroyer |
Displacement |
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Length | 83.5 m (273 ft 11 in) (o/a) |
Beam | 7.8 m (25 ft 7 in) |
Draft | 3 m (9 ft 10 in) (deep load) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion | 2 × shafts; 2 × steam turbines |
Speed | 32.5 knots (60.2 km/h; 37.4 mph) |
Range | 1,600 nmi (3,000 km; 1,800 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement | 105 |
Armament |
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