SMS Temes at Brăila, c. 1917
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History | |
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Austria-Hungary | |
Name | Temes |
Namesake | Temes River |
Launched | 26 March 1904 |
In service | November 1904 |
Out of service | 1918 |
Fate | Taken over by the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
Notes | Sunk by Serbian mine in October 1914, refloated in June 1916 |
Kingdom of Yugoslavia | |
Name | Drina |
Namesake | Drina River |
Acquired | 1918 |
Out of service | 15 April 1920 |
Fate | Reassigned to the Kingdom of Romania |
Kingdom of Romania | |
Name | Ardeal |
Namesake | Ardeal |
Acquired | 15 April 1920 |
Decommissioned | 1957 |
Out of service | 2 September 1944 |
Refit | 1937–1940 |
Reinstated | 12 August 1951 |
Fate | Scrapped in 1959 |
Notes | Confiscated by the USSR, returned in 1951 and continued service as M.20, later M.207, until 1957 |
Soviet Union | |
Name | Berdiansk |
Namesake | Berdiansk |
Acquired | 2 September 1944 |
Decommissioned | 28 February 1948 |
Fate | Returned to Romania in 1951 |
General characteristics (initial configuration) | |
Class and type | Temes-class river monitor |
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Length | 57.7 m (189 ft 4 in) |
Beam | 9.5 m (31 ft 2 in) |
Draught | 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in) |
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Propulsion | 2 triple-expansion steam engines |
Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
Range | 500 nmi (930 km; 580 mi) at 9.5 knots (17.6 km/h; 10.9 mph) |
Complement | 89 officers and enlisted |
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NMS Ardeal was a Temes-class river monitor originally named SMS Temes while in Austro-Hungarian Navy service. Built in 1904, Temes was the lead ship of her class and served as flag ship of the Austro-Hungarian Danube Flotilla between 1908 and 1914. After a short service in the Yugoslav Navy, she was transferred to the Romanian Navy in 1920 and served with the Romanian Danube Flotilla in World War II until 1944 when she was taken over the Soviets. She was returned to Romania in 1951 and served as a training ship under the name M.20, later M.207, until 1959 when she was scrapped.