SMS Szamos

Szamos in 1917
History
Austria-Hungary
Name	Szamos
Namesake	Szamos River
Builder	Schönichen & Hartmann, Budapest
Laid down	1891
Launched	25 August 1892
Commissioned	1893
Out of service	6 November 1918
Fate	Transferred to the Hungarian People's Republic
Hungarian People's Republic
Acquired	6 November 1918
Out of service	31 December 1918
Fate	Assigned to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, 1920
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Name	Tivadar
Acquired	1920
Fate	Disarmed and sold for service as a crane barge, January 1921
General characteristics
Class & type	Körös-class river monitor
Displacement	448 t (441 long tons)
Length	54 m (177 ft 2 in)
Beam	9 m (29 ft 6 in)
Draught	1.2 m (3 ft 11 in)
Installed power	2 Yarrow boilers 1,200 ihp (890 kW)
Propulsion	2 screws; 2 Triple-expansion steam engines
Speed	10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	77 officers and enlisted men
Armament	1 × twin 120 mm (4.7 in) guns 2 × single 66 mm (2.6 in) AA guns 2 × single machine guns
Armour	Belt: 50 mm (2 in) Gun turrets: 50–75 mm (2–3 in) Deck: 19 mm (0.75 in) Conning tower: 50 mm (2 in) bulkheads: 50 mm (2 in)

Szamos was one of two Körös-class river monitors built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy during the 1890s. Completed in 1893, she participated in the First World War of 1914–1918 and the subsequent Hungarian–Czechoslovak War of 1918–1919.

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