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Monarch Class. Photographs and history of the battleships of the Monarch Class of the Austro-Hungarian Navy. Class includes Monarch, Wien and Budapest. The new naval programme by the director of naval construction Siegrfried Popper. This class of coastal defence ships was the first to use turrets. | ||
Monarch | 9th May 1895 | The crew mutinied in February 1918 and from April that year she was an accommodation ship. Given to Britain in 1920 and scrapped in Italy. |
Wien | 6th July 1895 | Sunk by torpedoes on 10th December 1917. |
Budapest | 27th April 1896 | Became accommodation ship in 1918. Given to Britain in 1920 and scrapped in Italy. |
Displacement
(standard): 5878 t In the 1890s Austria-Hungary had only 2 obsolescent battleships (the
Rudolph and Stephanie). In 1893 Sterneck, the commander-in-chief of the
navy, could acquire enough funds to build three new, powerful ships. But
the two parliaments only agreed to smaller, so-called coastal defence
battleships. They expressed so, that Austria-Hungary was not interested
in conquering colonies, and that the country only wanted to defend
himself. The three ships were not identical, the Budapest received more
modern and more powerful engines. It was planed, that after the
commission of the Tegetthoff-class these ships had to be scrapped, but
since the war broke out, they remained in service. The Budapest and the Wien were built at Stabilimento Tecnico Trietino in Trieste, the Monarch at the Naval Arsenal Pola. Class history contributed by Alex Lakatos |
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Budapest | ||
Laid down: 16.02.1893. The Budapest made 1899 a voyage to the eastern Mediterranean. When the
war broke out she was allocated to training duties, and served mostly as
an artillery training ship and a swimming battery. On 28.12.1915 she was
part of the screening detachment for the cruisers and destroyers engaged
in the Battle of Durazzo, but the detachment finally returned to port
without firing one shot. On 09.01.1916 she bombarded the batteries on
the mountain Lovcen, and she had a great part in the capture of this
enemy fortress. In 1917 the ship was relocated from Cattaro to the
northern front, where she bombarded the Italian ground troops several
times. So on 16.11.1917, when she duelled with batteries on the
Cortelazzo, and also Italian torpedo boats and MTBs attacked. In this
engagement she only suffered minor damage. On 09.12.1917 the Italians
attempted to sink her in the harbour of Trieste, but the torpedoes fired
at her missed. In June of 1918 she received an 380 mm L/17 howitzer
instead of her bow turret for coastal bombardment. After the war she was handed over to the UK, and was subsequently scrapped. Ship history contributed by Alex Lakatos |
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Wien | ||
Laid down: 16.02.1893. Launched: 07.07.1895. The Wien participated 1897 on the ceremony for the 60. jubille of the crowing of Queen Victoria. Later she was part of the international blockade off Crete. In 1899 she made a voyage to the eastern Mediterranean. When the war broke out she was allocated to training duties, and served mostly as an artillery training ship and a swimming battery. In late 1917 she was relocated to Trieste, and bombarded the Italian troops several times. On 16.11.1917. she received 7 hits, but suffered only minor damage. On 09.12.1917 the Italians tried to sink both very dangerous coastal defence ships in their port by MTBs. The MAS-9 and MAS-13 entered port unnoticed, and fired their torpedoes. At 02:32 the Wien received two torpedo-hits, sank within five minutes. 46 men perished. Ship history contributed by Alex Lakatos |
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Laid down: 31.07.1893. The Monarch was the flagship of her division, known as the 5th
BattDiv. She made 1899 a voyage to the eastern Mediterranean. When the
war broke out she was allocated to training duties, and served mostly as
an artillery training ship and a swimming battery. In late 1914 she
bombarded the radio station, the barracks and several other targets at
Volonica. After this she served mostly as harbour defence ship. After the war she was handed over to the UK, and was subsequently scrapped. Ship history contributed by Alex Lakatos |
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