Under the original "Compo" nameplate, this small warship was built in the Ganz Danubius shipyards of Budapest in 1916. About 44 meters long and 6 meters wide at midship, with a displacement of 133 tons, she was propelled by two Ganz steam turbines turning twin screws. Renamed as Győr in 1929, she was eventually equipped with two Bofors cannons and various machineguns, surviving WW2 and being scrapped in 1950. Whether small Hungary had needed "large" river warships, numbering around half a dozen during the Horthy era, had always been a debated issue.

"Győr" Warship on the Danube, Hungary

During July, 1941, as WW2 began, Kolomea, a recently Soviet occupied multi-national city, also claimed by Romania and even Poland, welcomes its Axis "liberation" as the Rapid Corps troops of Hungary make their headway toward the East.

Hungarian Army Welcomed in Kolomea, 1941

Hungarian CSABA BECZE,  a published historian on the subject writes:  "ZRINYI II was lower, than the StuG III. Hungarian assault gunners liked it and shot a lot of Soviet tanks and assault guns out with their Zrínyi's. It had two problems: Zrínyi's had welded armour and the gun's barrel was short (the muzzle velocity of the howitzer's shell wasn't enough for a firefight against Soviet heavy tanks over 1 km). BTW, they had firefights at long distances very rarely, and the 105 mm AT shell against Soviet tanks was very effective. The Soviets had to sacrifice 3-4 armored vehicles for one Zrínyi. It was an excellent vehicle for ambushes and for escorting attacking infantry."