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Tuesday 15 August 2017

Austro-Hungarian navy building submarine salvage vessel annex depot ships for submarines and torpedo boats according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1910-1911 no. 7

An item reported the building at Fiume [Rijeka, Crouta] of a salvage vessel for submarines and which was at the same time to serve as a mother ship for submarines and torpedo boats. Dimensions 64,20 (between perpendiculars) x 10 metres and a displacement of around 1.500 tons. The machinery consisted of 2-2,500 hp engines and 2 water tube boilers with a heating boiler. To be fitted out with 2 centrifugal pumps with a capacity of 1.900 cubic metres/hour and 2 pumps with a capacity of 1.100 cubic metres/hour, 2 movable pumps with steam boiler with a capacity of 550 cubic metres, 2 movable pumps with internal combustion motors with a capacity of 1.350 cubic metres and 2 movable electric centrifugal pumps with a capacity of 200 cubic metres. Further more would she have 2 steam winches of each 15 tons, air pumps, air accumulators and a storage for all the stores needed on board of torpedo boats and submarines, diver equipment, engine cranes and a repair workshop.