The '' (Replacement) Triglav '' class consisted of four
destroyer
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s built for the
Austro-Hungarian Navy
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during the
First World War. Completed late in the war, they saw little action; three ships were seized by Italy and one by France as war reparations in 1920.
Background and description
The loss of two s in the
1st Battle of Durazzo in 1915 caused the Austro-Hungarian Navy to begin construction of four improved versions of the ''Tátra''s the following year named ''Triglav'', ''Lika'', ''Dukla'' and ''Uzsok''.
The ''Ersatz Triglav''-class ships were slightly longer than the ''Tátra''s with an
overall length of , a
beam
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of , and a maximum
draft of . They
displaced at normal load and at
deep load.
[Freivogel, p. 140] The ships had a complement of 114 officers and enlisted men.
[Sieche 1985a, p. 338]
The destroyers were powered by two
AEG
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-Curtiss
steam turbine
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sets, each driving a single propeller using steam provided by six
Yarrow boilers. Four of the boilers were
oil-fired while the remaining pair used coal, although oil was sprayed onto the coal to increase power. The turbines, designed to produce , were intended to give the ships a speed of . was the fastest ship of the class at . The ships carried of oil and of coal which gave them a range of at full speed.
[Freivogel, pp. 139—140]
The main armament of the ''Ersatz Triglav''-class destroyers consisted of two 50-caliber
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Å koda Works K11 guns, one each fore and aft of the superstructure
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in single mounts. Their secondary armament consisted of four 45-caliber K09 TAG (german: Torpedoboot-Abwehr Geschütz, link=no (anti-torpedo boat guns)). Two additional guns were placed on anti-aircraft
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mountings. They were also equipped with four torpedo tubes in two twin rotating mountings aft of the funnels. Two spare torpedoes were stored on the main deck.[
After the war, three vessels—''Triglav'', ''Lika'', and ''Uzsok''—were ceded to Italy and one, ''Dukla'', to France. The last vessels were scrapped in 1939.
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