Austro-Hungarian Navy

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It's really amazing the number of pics of this long gone rather obscure Navy! I have a new photo book on order @ this Fleet; looking forward to seeing it!! :D DFO
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Several views of the predreadnought ZRINYI............ :) I started a 1:1536 model of her today. DFO
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A very nice shot of the ill fated SZENT ISTVAN. Well, she did LOOK the part......... ;) DFO
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Tegetthoff Class Dreadnought Battleship SMS Prinz Eugen.Built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy by Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino Shipyards at Trieste in 1912.Commissioned into the Austro-Hungarian Navy just 10 days after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, she was a member of the 1st Battleship Division of the Austro-Hungarian Navy at the beginning of the war alongside the other ships of her Class, and was stationed out of the Austro-Hungarian naval base at Pola. She first saw action during the Bombardment of Ancona following Italy's declaration of war on Austria-Hungary in May 1915, but saw little combat for the rest of the war due to the Otranto Barrage, which prohibited the Austro-Hungarian Navy from leaving the Adriatic Sea. In June 1918, in an bid to earn safer passage for German and Austro-Hungarian U-boats through the Strait of Otranto, the Austro-Hungarian Navy attempted to break the Barrage with a major attack on the strait, but it was abandoned after her sister ship, Szent István, was sunk by torpedoes launched from the Italian torpedo boat MAS-15 on June 10th.
After the sinking of Szent István, Prinz Eugen and the remaining two ships of her class, Viribus Unitis and Tegetthoff, returned to port in Pola where they remained for the rest of the war. Facing defeat in the war in October 1918, the Austro-Hungarian government decided to transfer the bulk of its navy to the newly formed State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs in order to avoid having to hand the ship over to the Allies.This transfer however was not recognized by the Armistice of Villa Giusti, signed between Austria-Hungary and the Allies in November 1918. Under the terms of the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Prinz Eugen was handed over to France. The French Navy subsequently removed her main armament for inspection before using the Battleship as a Target Ship. After being first used to test aerial bombardment attacks, she was sunk by the battleships Paris, Jean Bart, and France off Toulon on June 28th 1922, exactly eight years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
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Here is the TEGETTHOFF being scrapped in La Spezia 1924-25. :( DFO
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Ironclad Battleship SMS Custoza pictured c 1876. She was the first Austro-Hungarian Ironclad to be built after the navy studied the results of the Battle of Lissa of 1866; she was also the first iron-hulled capital ship to be built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy. She was laid down in November 1869 at Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino in Trieste and launched in August 1872, and completed in February 1875. Custoza was armed with a main battery of eight 10 inch 22-calibre breech-loading guns manufactured by Krupp's Essen Works. These were mounted in a central, armored battery that had two stories, four guns apiece. The guns each had two gun ports available, which allowed four guns to fire ahead or on the broadside; only the upper two aft guns could fire astern. She also carried several smaller guns, including six 3.5 inch 24-calibre guns and two 2.8 inch 15-calibre guns, all manufactured by Krupp. Custoza was somewhat more active in the 1880s, taking part in an international naval demonstration against the Ottoman Empire in 1880, being modernized in 1882, and a trip to Spain for the Barcelona Universal Exposition in 1888. She became a Training Ship in 1902, was converted into a Barracks Ship in 1914, and after World War I, was awarded as a war prize to Italy. Custoza was immediately broken up.
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One of Class, Armoured Cruiser SMS Kaiserin und Königin Maria Theresia pictured on completion at Trieste in 1894....'Empress and Queen Maria Theresa' served with the Imperial Austro-Hungarian Navy from 1895 to 1917; she was the first ship of that type built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy. The ship was a unique design, built by the Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino Shipyards at Trieste; she was laid down in July 1891, launched in April 1893, and completed in November 1894. Armed with a main battery of two 9.4 inch guns and eight 5.9 inch guns, the ship provided the basis for two subsequent Armoured Cruiser designs for the Austro-Hungarian Navy....In 1898, Kaiserin und Königin Maria Theresia was deployed to the Caribbean to safeguard Austro-Hungarian interests during the Spanish–American War; she inadvertently arrived off Santiago de Cuba on the morning the Spanish squadron attempted to escape from the American blockade, and was nearly attacked herself. In 1900, she was sent to China to assist in the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion, and remained in East Asian waters until 1902. She was heavily modernized between 1906 and 1910, and served in the 1st Cruiser Division after returning to the fleet. She was used first as a Harbour Guard Ship and then as a Barracks Ship during World War I. After the end of the war, she was surrendered to Britain as a war prize and broken up for scrap in 1920.
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Various views of the old ironclad BUDAPEST, including a late war view of her modified! :) DFO
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Here is a survivor, from 1904 of the KuK, the river monitor BODROG, later the SAVA. She fought in WW1 and WW2 plus survives to this day as a museum ship! She is in many sources "credited" with firing the first shots of WW1......... :o She carried 2-4.7" and 1-4.7" howitzer. DFO
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Launch day for Tegetthoff Class Dreadnought Battleship SMS Viribus Unitis at Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino Shipyards at Trieste on June 24th 1911.
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