Yugoslav monitor Sava information

Yugoslav monitor *Sava*
	SMS Bodrog on the Danube river in 1914
History
Austria-Hungary
Name	Bodrog
Namesake	Bodrog River
In service	2 August 1904
Out of service	1918
Fate	Assigned to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (KSCS)
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Name	Sava
Namesake	Sava River
Acquired	15 April 1920
Fate	Scuttled by the crew on 11/12 April 1941
Independent State of Croatia
Name	Sava
Acquired	Raised and repaired
Fate	Scuttled by the crew 8/9 September 1944
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Name	Sava
Acquired	Raised and repaired
Reinstated	1952
Fate	Transferred to state-run company
Status	Acquired by the Ministry of Defence and Military Museum and restored. Now a floating museum.
Notes	Naval service ended in 1962
General characteristics
Class and type	Temes-class river monitor
Displacement	440 tonnes (430 long tons)
Length	57.7 m (189 ft 4 in)
Beam	9.5 m (31 ft 2 in)
Draught	1.2 m (3 ft 11 in)
Installed power	1,400 ihp (1,000 kW); 2 Yarrow water-tube boilers;
Propulsion	2 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed	13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Complement	86 officers and enlisted
Armament	2 × 120 mm (4.7 in)/L35 guns (2 × 1); 1 × 120 mm (4.7 in)/L10 howitzer; 2 × 37 mm (1.5 in) guns;
Armour	Belt and bulkheads: 40 mm (1.6 in); Deck: 25 mm (0.98 in); Conning tower: 75 mm (3.0 in); Gun turrets: 40 mm (1.6 in);

The Yugoslav monitor Sava is a Temes-class river monitor that was built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy as SMS Bodrog. She fired the first shots of World War I just after 01:00 on 29 July 1914, when she and two other monitors shelled Serbian defences near Belgrade. She was part of the Danube Flotilla, and fought the Serbian and Romanian armies from Belgrade to the mouth of the Danube. In the closing stages of the war, she was the last monitor to withdraw towards Budapest, but was captured by the Serbs when she grounded on a sandbank downstream from Belgrade. After the war, she was transferred to the newly created Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia), and renamed Sava. She remained in service throughout the interwar period, although budget restrictions meant she was not always in full commission.

During the German-led Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, Sava served with the 1st Monitor Division. Along with her fellow monitor Vardar, she laid mines in the Danube near the Romanian border during the first few days of the invasion. The two monitors fought off several attacks by the Luftwaffe, but were forced to withdraw to Belgrade. Due to high river levels and low bridges, navigation was difficult, and Sava was scuttled on 11 April. Some of her crew tried to escape cross-country towards the southern Adriatic coast, but all were captured prior to the Yugoslav surrender. The vessel was later raised by the navy of the Axis puppet state known as the Independent State of Croatia and continued to serve as Sava until the night of 8 September 1944 when she was again scuttled.

Following World War II, Sava was raised once again, and was refurbished to serve in the Yugoslav Navy from 1952 to 1962. She was then transferred to a state-owned company that was eventually privatised. In 2005, the government of Serbia granted her limited heritage protection after citizens demanded that she be preserved as a floating museum, but little else was done to restore her at the time. In 2015, the Serbian Ministry of Defence and Belgrade's Military Museum acquired the ship. She was restored by early 2019 and opened as a floating museum in November 2021.

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History
SMS Bodrog on the Danube river in 1914
Austria-Hungary
Name	Bodrog
Namesake	Bodrog River
In service	2 August 1904
Out of service	1918
Fate	Assigned to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (KSCS)
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Name	Sava
Namesake	Sava River
Acquired	15 April 1920
Fate	Scuttled by the crew on 11/12 April 1941
Independent State of Croatia
Name	Sava
Acquired	Raised and repaired
Fate	Scuttled by the crew 8/9 September 1944
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Name	Sava
Acquired	Raised and repaired
Reinstated	1952
Fate	Transferred to state-run company
Status	Acquired by the Ministry of Defence and Military Museum and restored. Now a floating museum.
Notes	Naval service ended in 1962
General characteristics
Class and type	Temes-class river monitor
Displacement	440 tonnes (430 long tons)
Length	57.7 m (189 ft 4 in)
Beam	9.5 m (31 ft 2 in)
Draught	1.2 m (3 ft 11 in)
Installed power	1,400 ihp (1,000 kW) 2 Yarrow water-tube boilers
Propulsion	2 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed	13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Complement	86 officers and enlisted
Armament	2 × 120 mm (4.7 in)/L35 guns (2 × 1) 1 × 120 mm (4.7 in)/L10 howitzer 2 × 37 mm (1.5 in) guns
Armour	Belt and bulkheads: 40 mm (1.6 in) Deck: 25 mm (0.98 in) Conning tower: 75 mm (3.0 in) Gun turrets: 40 mm (1.6 in)