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List Of Cruisers Of Austria-Hungary
Between the 1870s and 1910s, the Austro-Hungarian Navy built a series of cruisers of various types, including small torpedo cruisers, protected cruisers, fast scout cruisers and large armored cruisers. The first modern cruisers were the three begun in the late 1870s; a fourth vessel, , followed in the early 1880s. These ships proved to be unsatisfactory in service, and so to gain experience building effective vessels, the Navy ordered the two s from Britain. These were used as the basis for the domestically-built . Toward the end of the 1880s, the Navy shifted from building small torpedo cruisers to larger protected and armored cruisers, the first of which were the two s. These provided the basis for the armored cruisers , , and , built between 1891 and 1905. In the mid-1890s, the three s were built; these proved to be the last protected cruisers of the Austro-Hungarian fleet. In the mid-1900s, the Navy started building scout cruisers, starting with , which proved to be a disappo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SMS Kaiser Karl IV
SMS ''Kaiser Karl VI'' ("His Majesty's Ship ''Kaiser Karl VI''") was the second of three armored cruisers built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy. She was built by the Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino in Trieste between June 1896 and May 1900, when she was commissioned into the fleet. ''Kaiser Karl VI'' represented a significant improvement over the preceding design——being faster and more heavily armed and armored. She provided the basis for the third design, , which featured further incremental improvements. Having no overseas colonies to patrol, Austria-Hungary built the ship solely to reinforce its battle fleet. ''Kaiser Karl VI'' spent the first decade in service rotating between the training and reserve squadrons, alternating with ''Sankt Georg''. In 1910, ''Kaiser Karl VI'' went on a major overseas cruise to South America, visiting Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina; this was the last trans-Atlantic voyage of an Austro-Hungarian warship. After the outbreak of war, she was mobili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
