Enns-class river monitor Enns-class river monitor The "Enns"-class river monitors were built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy during the mid-1910s. The two ships of the class were assigned to the Danube Flotilla and participated in World War I. The ships survived the war and were transferred to Romania and the newly created Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia) as reparations. The ships had an overall length of , a beam of , and a normal draught of . They displaced , and their crew consisted of 95 officers and enlisted men. The "Enns"-class ships were powered by two triple-expansion steam engines, each
Enns-class river monitor her conning tower, gun turrets and cupolas were thick. During World War II, "Besarabia" was armed with two 120 mm L/45 naval guns, three 120 mm L/10 naval howitzers, two 47 mm quick-fire guns and four machine guns. She also had a range of 690 nautical miles, more than enough to travel across the greatest East-West extent of the Black Sea, which was 635 nautical miles (the Black Sea was the area of operations of the World War II Romanian Navy). Enns-class river monitor The "Enns"-class river monitors were built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy during the mid-1910s. The two ships