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 (town) which up to 6,000 soldiers were stationed, was located on the site of modern Enns. The adjacent settlement (today: "Lorch") received the privileges of a "municipium" in 212 from Emperor Caracalla. At that time about 30,000 people lived here. During the Diocletian Persecution of Christians, a commander of the Roman army, Saint Florian, died as a martyr at "Lauriacum" on 4 May 304, when he was drowned in the Enns river. Only nine years later, the Emperor Constantine I proclaimed religious tolerance with the Edict of Milan. About 370, an Early Christian basilica was built on the remains of a