Leitha-class river monitor

Class overview
Name	Leitha
Builders	Pest Flumaner Schiffbau, Budapest
Operators	Austro-Hungarian Navy Danube Guard Royal Yugoslav Navy
Preceded by	None
Succeeded by	Körös class
Built	1870–1872
In service	1872–1918
Completed	2
Retired	1
Scrapped	1
General characteristics
Type	River monitor
Length	50.5 m (165 ft 8 in)
Beam	8.65 m (28 ft 5 in)
Draught	1.3 m (4 ft 3 in)
Installed power	700 ihp (520 kW)
Propulsion	2 screws; 2 double-expansion steam engines
Speed	8.3 knots (15.4 km/h; 9.6 mph)
Armament	As built: 2 × single 15 cm (5.9 in) cannon 2 × 4-barreled 19 mm (0.7 in) Nordenfelt guns After 1892: 1 × single 120 mm (4.7 in) gun 2 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) revolver cannon 1 × single 8 mm (0.3 in) machine gun 1915: 1 × single 120 mm gun 2 or 3 × single 66 mm (2.6 in) guns 2 × 5-barreled 37 mm (1.5 in) revolver cannon 2 × single 8 mm Schwarzlose machine guns

The Leitha class consisted of two river monitors built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy that saw service during World War I.

Ships

Ship	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned	Fate
SMS Leitha	Pest Flumaner Schiffbau, Budapest	1870	17 May 1871	13 October 1872	Museum ship, 20 August 2010
SMS Maros			20 April 1871		Scrapped, January 1921

Bibliography

• Branfill-Cook, Roger (2018). River Gunboats: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-365-0.
• Dodson, Aidan & Cant, Serena (2020). Spoils of War: The Fate of Enemy Fleets after Two World Wars. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5267-4198-1.
• Freivogel, Zvonimir (2020). Warships of the Royal Yugoslav Navy 1918–1945. Vol. 1. Zagreb, Croatia: Despot Infinitus. ISBN 978-953-8218-72-9.
• Greger, René (1976). Austro-Hungarian Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0623-7.