SMS Orjen[Note 1] was one of six Tátra-class destroyers built for the kaiserliche und königliche Kriegsmarine (Austro-Hungarian Navy) shortly before the First World War. Completed in 1914, 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 Orjen was one of the ships conducting raids off the Albanian coast to interdict the supply lines between Italy and Albania, although she did not participate in the First Battle of Durazzo in late December. Orjen participated in several raids on the Otranto Barrage in 1916–1917 with limited success. She was transferred to Italy in 1920 in accordance with the peace treaties ending the war and renamed Pola. She mostly served as a training ship or in Italian North Africa when she was not in reserve from 1924 to 1928. Renamed Zenson in 1931, the ship was scrapped in 1937.
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SMSOrjen was one of six Tátra-class destroyers built for the kaiserliche und königliche Kriegsmarine (Austro-Hungarian Navy) shortly before the First...
February 1916. On the night of 31 May/1 June, Balaton and her sister SMSOrjen, together with three torpedo boats, attacked the Otranto Barrage and sank...
destroyer SMSOrjen in pursuit. Alerted by Helgoland's commander, Linienschiffskapitän (Captain) Heinrich Seitz, the destroyers Csepel and SMS Tátra, which...
destroyer SMSOrjen in pursuit. Alerted by Helgoland's commander, Linienschiffskapitän (Captain) Heinrich Seitz, the destroyers SMS Csepel and SMS Tátra,...
The naval trawler was shelled and sunk in the Strait of Otranto by SMS Orjen ( Austro-Hungarian Navy) with the loss of nine of her crew. Dewsland United...
in 1943. She was sunk by Allied aircraft in February 1945. Four Yugoslav Orjen-class torpedo boat (KB Velebit, KB Dinara, KB Triglav and KB Rudnik) were...
both were lost or stricken while in Italian service. Eight German-built Orjen-class torpedo boats were purchased from Nazi Germany in the mid-to-late...
Corfu, and Hrabri and Osvetnik visited Malta. In 1936, eight German-built Orjen-class MTBs were added. Also in 1936, a new naval coastal command was established...
"Novara", Janousek from "Helgoland", Vošmik from "Balaton" and Mývalt from "Orjen" as well as Pribyl and Fr. Malý from the flight station and from the submarine...
of the scout cruiser Helgoland and the destroyers Balaton, Csepel, Lika, Orjen, Tatra, and Triglav left Cattaro on 18 October 1917 to attack Italian convoys...
the Bocche. On the night of 31 May – 1 June, the Tátra-class destroyers Orjen and Balaton, accompanied by 77 T and two other 250t-class boats, raided...
1916, the Tátra-class destroyers Orjen and Balaton, accompanied by 79 T, 77 T and 81 T, raided the Otranto Barrage. Orjen sank one drifter with a torpedo...
Eventually Kern fled into exile with other KM vessels. On 13 April, the Orjen-class torpedo boat Triglav arrived with orders that the division should...
Eventually Kern fled into exile with other KM vessels. On 13 April, the Orjen-class torpedo boat Triglav arrived with orders that the division should...
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