Yugoslav monitor Sava
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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
SMS Bodrog on the Danube river in 1914
View from the Belgrade Fortress over the Great War Island. Bodrog supported the October 1915 crossings of the Danube near the fortress.
During their withdrawal towards Belgrade, Sava and Vardar were repeatedly attacked by German Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive bombers.
Sava following her restoration, November 2021
The Austro-Hungarian Danube Flotilla was a section of the Austro-Hungarian Navy established after the Austro-Prussian War. It consisted of 9 gunboats, 8 armoured patrol boats and 55 other miscellaneou
Yugoslav monitor Sava
…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…
Austro-Hungarian monitors at Rustschuk in 1916