SMS Novara (1912)

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SMS Novara
The Thionville 1920
The Thionville 1920
Ship data
flag Austria-HungaryAustria-Hungary (naval war flag) Austria-Hungary France
FranceFrance (national flag of the sea) 
other ship names

Thionville

Ship type Small cruiser
class Helgoland class
Shipyard Ganz & Co shipyard - Danubius , Fiume
Keel laying February 9, 1912
Launch February 15, 1913
Commissioning May 1, 1915
Whereabouts Wrecked in 1941
Ship dimensions and crew
length
129.65 m ( Lüa )
width 12.7 m
Draft Max. 4.9 m
displacement Construction: 3,445 t
Maximum: 3,947 t
 
crew 350 men
Machine system
machine 16 Yarrow boilers
2 sets of AEG steam turbines
Machine
performance 		29,000 PS (21,329 kW)
Top
speed 		27 kn (50 km / h)
propeller 2 screws
Armament
Armor
  • Belt: up to 60 mm
  • Deck: 20 mm

SMS Novara was a rapid cruiser ( small cruiser ) of the Austro-Hungarian Navy .
She was the third unit of the improved Admiral Spaun - or Helgoland class and after the sailing frigate Novara the second ship of this name.

Building history

Identical to the type ship SMS Helgoland , the SMS Novara was laid on February 9, 1912 at the shipyard Ganz & Co - Danubius in Fiume . The launch took place on February 15, 1913 and the commissioning on May 1, 1915.
The ship was named after the battle of Novara .

Calls

Immediately after commissioning, the German submarine UB 8 destined for the Black Sea was towed from Pola to the Strait of Otranto on May 2, 1915 . The German submarine UB 3, also destined for the Black Sea, was towed from Cattaro to the Strait of Otranto on May 23, 1915 .

  • May 23, 1915: Advance with the entire kuk fleet to the east coast of Italy. Bombardment of Porto Corsini
  • June 17, 1915: With SMS Admiral Spaun and security vehicles bombardment of land targets at the mouth of the Tagliamento
  • June 27, 1915: Bombardment of the railway line Ancona - Pesaro with SMS Admiral Spaun
  • December 5, 1915: Four destroyers and three torpedo boats bombard San Giovanni di Medua . A fallen after being hit by a coastal battery.
  • December 18, 1915: Advance into the southern Adriatic to thwart an alleged attempt by the Serbian King Peter I to return .
  • December 29, 1915: Leaving in association to support the Heligoland group in action .
  • January 27, 1916: Advance to Durazzo with two destroyers
  • April 3, 1916: With kuk U-boats U 5 and U 6 advance to the Otranto barrier .
  • 8/9 July 1916: Attack on the Otranto barrier, during which two British guards are sunk.
SMS Novara unable to move after being hit in the boiler room on May 15, 1917
  • 14./15. May 1917 - In association with SMS Helgoland and SMS Saida attack on the security vehicles of the Otranto barrier. Six net trawlers are sunk. On the way back sea ​​battle with the British cruisers HMS Bristol and HMS Dartmouth , the Italian cruiser Marsala and Italian destroyers. Unable to drive after being hit in the engine room, towed to Cattaro by SMS Saida . Own losses: 14 dead and 24 wounded out of 45 hits.
Novara in dry dock after the May 1917 battle
  • until November 11, 1917: Repairs in Pola.
  • 12./13. November 1917: Advance on the Otranto barrier.
  • February 2, 1918: After the mutiny collapsed in Cattaro, personnel were cut by 100 men
  • 22./23. April 1918: Advance on the Italian east coast
  • June 9, 1918: In the Bay of Kotor , a formation of two cruisers, SMS Helgoland and SMS Novara , as well as four destroyers is put together as attack group A. The goal is the Otranto lock. Due to the meanwhile sinking of the battleship SMS Szent István , the company is called off.
  • 9/10 October 1918: With SMS Helgoland and six destroyers, retention group for the return of the Durazzo convoy.
  • At the end of the war in Gjenovic / Bay of Kotor

Whereabouts

At the end of January 1920, the ship was awarded to France by an Allied naval delegation . In March 1920 a French tug attempted to tow the cruiser to Bizerta . The company had to be broken off due to an accident and the association ran to Brindisi . Here the SMS Novara sank in the outer port. After five weeks the ship could be lifted and finally brought to Bizerta, where it was repaired and made operational again. The cruiser was renamed Thionville and equipped with French armament. (9 × 10 cm Schneider-Creuzot M 1917 cannons, 1 × 7.5 cm anti-aircraft gun, 7 × surface torpedo tubes in 2 × twin and 1 × triple sets, as well as a new fire control system.) When the artillery and torpedo training ship of the Mediterranean School Division was the Thionville was still in use until May 1, 1932. It was then disarmed and lay as a stationary training ship at the artillery pier of the Toulon Sea Arsenal before it was struck from the register in 1941 and sold for demolition.

Remarks

  1. ↑ For the sake of authenticity, the place names are given in the spelling of the Imperial and Royal Navy. The links refer to today's conditions.

literature

  • Erwin S. Sieche: The cruisers of the k. and k. Navy (= naval arsenal with international naval news and naval overview 27). Podzun-Pallas et al., Wölfersheim-Berstadt et al. 1994, ISBN 3-7909-0506-2 .
  • Harald Bendert: The UB boats of the Imperial Navy 1914-1918 , Mittler & Sohn Verlag 2000, ISBN 3-8132-0713-7 .

Web links

Commons : SMS Novara  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files