| Austro-Hungarian "Kaiser Max" Class |
| - Center Battery Ironclads - |
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Battleships |
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| In 1873 the wooden hulled 2nd class armored frigate Kaiser
Max - and also her two sisters Juan de Austria and
Prinz Eugen - were hulked and handed over to the S.T.T. shipyard
for demolition. Instead of them three new iron hulled center battery ironclads were
constructed using valuable parts of the machinery and armor plates. For legistic reasons
this was officially called a 'conversion' [Umbau], in fact they were entire new ships.
Note the slight difference in the name of the old and the new Don Juan.
Austrian naval architect Romako to his US Navy colleague King, who visited him during an
European fact finding mission: "It is true that the engines of the three old ships cannot give a higher speed to the new ships than twelve knots, but instead of building only one new ship we shall posses three rams." In 1904 she was stricken, and from 1909 she served as accommodation ship at Teodo (Tivat) at the Bocche di Cattaro (Boka Kotorska). End of January 1920 she was ceded by the Allied Naval Delegations at Paris to Yugoslavia and renamed Tivat, her further fate is unknown. |
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| Technical Data | ||
| Laid down: Launched: Commissioned: Displacement: Dimensions: Propulsion: Max. Speed: Range: Fuel: Crew: |
14 February 1874 at S.T.T. San Rocco (data of Kaiser
Max) 28 December 1875 28 December 1877 3,548.48 / 3,799.21 ts 75.87 x 15.25 x 6.39 2,866 / 2,755 ihp; 5 boilers (2.06 atü) 2 VTE, 1 shaft 13.38 kts ? 379.5 t coal 440 |
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| Main: Secondary: Minor: Torpedoes: Searchlights: |
8x210 cal 20 4x90 cal 24; 2x70 cal 15 6x47 QF; 3x47 revolver gun; 2x25 QF 4x350 (bow, stern, sides) ? |
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