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SMS ''Zenta'' was a small protected cruiser built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the late 1890s. She was lead ship of her class and named after the Battle of Zenta. ==Design and description== ''Zenta'' was conceived to show the flag abroad.〔Sondhaus, p. 130〕 ''Zenta'' had an overall length of , a beam of and had a designed draft of . The ship displaced at normal load and at deep load.〔Bilzer, p. 23〕 She had two four-cylinder vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving a single propeller shaft. Steam for the engines was provided by eight Yarrow boilers and they made an average total of during her sea trials on 30 March 1899. The average maximum speed during the trials was , but ''Zenta'' achieved a maximum speed of from . She carried up to of coal〔 and could steam for at a speed of .〔Greger, p. 30〕 ''Zenta''s main armament consisted of eight 40-caliber Škoda quick-firing guns. Two of these were mounted fore and aft of the superstructure in single pivot mounts protected by gun shields while the other six guns were mounted in casemates on the sides of the hull. Her secondary armament comprised eight 44-caliber Škoda guns and two 33-caliber 4.7-centimeter Hotchkiss guns. Four of these guns were mounted on pivot mounts in the superstructure and the remaining guns were in casemates in the hull. She was also armed with two torpedo tubes mounted in the hull above the waterline.〔Bilzer, pp. 23–24〕 The ship was lightly protected by an armor deck that consisted of two layers of plates. Over the engine and boiler rooms the thickness doubled to a total of . The casemates were protected by of armor and the conning tower by two layers of armor plates.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SMS Zenta」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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