SMS Csepel

A model of sister ship SMS Tátra in the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien
History
Austria-Hungary
Name	Csepel
Builder	Ganz-Danubius, Porto Ré, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Laid down	9 January 1912
Launched	30 December 1912
Completed	29 December 1913
Fate	Ceded to Italy, January 1920
Kingdom of Italy
Acquired	January 1920
Renamed	Muggia, 26 September 1920
Fate	Wrecked, 25 March 1929
General characteristics
Class and type	Tátra-class destroyer
Displacement	870 long tons (880 t) (normal) 1,050 long tons (1,070 t) (deep load)
Length	83.5 m (273 ft 11 in) (o/a)
Beam	7.8 m (25 ft 7 in)
Draft	3 m (9 ft 10 in) (deep load)
Installed power	6 × Yarrow boilers 20,600 shp (15,400 kW)
Propulsion	2 × shafts; 2 × steam turbines
Speed	32.5 knots (60.2 km/h; 37.4 mph)
Range	1,600 nmi (3,000 km; 1,800 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	105
Armament	2 × single 10 cm (3.9 in) guns 6 × single 66 mm (2.6 in) guns 2 × twin 45 cm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes

SMS Csepel^{[Note 1]} was one of six Tátra-class destroyers built for the kaiserliche und königliche Kriegsmarine (Austro-Hungarian Navy) shortly before the First World War. Completed in 1913, she helped to sink an Italian destroyer during the action off Vieste in May 1915 after Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary. Two months later the ship participated in an unsuccessful attempt to recapture a small island in the central Adriatic Sea from the Italians. In November and early December Csepel was one of the ships conducting raids off the Albanian coast to interdict the supply lines between Italy and Albania. She was hit one time during the First Battle of Durazzo in late December. Her stern was blown off by a French submarine in early 1916 and her repairs were not completed until early 1917.

Csepel participated in several unsuccessful raids on the Otranto Barrage in 1917, although she sank an Italian destroyer during the Battle of the Strait of Otranto. During the action of 22 April 1918 in the Strait of Otranto, the ship helped to damage a pair of British destroyers. She was transferred to Italy in 1920 in accordance with the peace treaties ending the war and renamed Muggia. The Regia Marina (Royal Italian Navy) transferred her to the Far East in 1927 where she ran aground and was wrecked during a typhoon two years later.
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