Austro-Hungarian Navy

[Brian James]

Kaiser Max Class Broadside Ironclad Battleship SMS Don Juan d'Austria pictured c1864...Her keel was laid in October 1861 at Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino Shipyard at Trieste; she was launched in July 1862, and was completed in 1863. She carried her main battery—composed of sixteen 48-pounder guns and fifteen 24-pounders—in a traditional broadside arrangement, protected by an armoured belt that was 4.3 inches thick. Don Juan d'Austria saw action at the Battle of Lissa in July 1866. There she was heavily engaged in the center of the melee; she traded broadsides with the Italian ironclad Re di Portogallo and was hit three times by the Turret Ship Affondatore, though she received little damage. After the war, Don Juan d'Austria was modernized slightly in 1867 to correct her poor seakeeping and improve her armament, but she was nevertheless rapidly outpaced by naval developments in the 1860s and 1870s. Obsolescent by 1873, Don Juan d'Austria was officially "rebuilt", though in actuality she was broken up for scrap, with only her armour plate, parts of her machinery, and other miscellaneous parts being reused in the new Don Juan d'Austria.

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Austro-Hungarian, Enns Class Danube River Flotilla River Monitor SMS Inn pictured on launch day at Ganz Machinery Works Shipyard, Budapest in September 1914.

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Danube River Flotilla, River Monitor SMS Maros pictured c1915.

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Kaiman Class Torpedo Boat SMS Seehund pictured at Fiume (Rijeka, Croatia) in 1911.

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Kaiman Class Torpedo Boats of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, pictured at Pula Naval Base in 1912. The following boats, from front to back, are visible: Delphin (56T), Triton (64F), Drache (62T), Seehund (55T), Polyp (69F) and Greif (63).

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Schematic of Lead Ship, Semi-Dreadnought Battleship SMS Radetzky...1911

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Kaiser Franz Joseph I Class, Protected Cruiser SMS Kaiserin Elisabeth pictured sporting her aft mounted Type Model 1886 9.4 inch/35 calibre main armament c 1914.

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Launch day pictured for Tegetthoff Class Dreadnought Battleship SMS Szent István at Ganz-Danubius Shipyard, Fiume on January 17th 1914.

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Launch day for Tegetthoff Class Dreadnought Battleship SMS Szent István at Ganz-Danubius Shipyard, Fiume (now Rijeka), Croatia on January 17th 1914.