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The S.M.S. Leitha monitor was launched in 1871 and now one of the last, remaining gunboat from the former Austro-Hungarian Navy. She got her name after an Austrian river Lajta (Leitha) like the other monitor type warships in the empire. She served the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy with her sistership the S.M.S. Maros and with other gunboats for nearly fifty decades. Altough she became obsolete as a military tool by the time of the First World War even so she fought in it after some modification was done on her. After the war she joined into the chaotic Hungarian revolutions and counterrevolutions but from 1921 she was disarmed by order of the Entente Powers. From the middle of the 1920’s she worked as an elevatorship for river gravel dredging until the early 1990’s on the Danube the she was reconstructed to museumship.

This documentary made by the ’Digitális Legendárium’ creative group with the professional support of MoD Military Institute and Museum.