Battleships
Austro-Hungarian "Erzherzog" Class
- Pre-Dreadnoughts - 

Coastal defense vessels. / Ships: Monarch , Budapest, Wien
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1916 Line Drawing of "Monarch" class by Erwin Sieche  

Technical Data
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1893 - 1898
5,547.52 / 5,785.72 ts
99.22×17×6.66 m
8,500 ihp; 2 VTE - 2 shafts; 5 cylinder-boilers (16 Belleville wt on Budapest)
17.8 kts (Budapest)
2,200 @ 12 kts  (3500 / 9)
500 t coal
26 + 397 (peace time)
Tactical Data
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4×240 cal 40 Krupp C94 [2x2]
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10×47 cal 44 Skoda; 4x47 cal 33 Hotchkiss QF; 2x70 cal 15
220..270 - 60 - 250 - 220
2x450 (side)
4x600; 2x350

Monarch - Laid down 31 July 1893 at Seearsenal Pola, lauched 9 May 1895, commissioned 11 May 1898. 1920: Ceded to Great Britain and sold for scrapping to Italy.
Wien - laid down 16. Feb 1893 at S.T.T., launched 7. July 1895, commissioned 1 May 1897
See also "Mosquitoes with a deadly sting, ..."
Budapest - laid down 16. Feb. 1893 at S.T.T., lauched 24. July 1895, commissioned 12. May 1898.

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Sources: MGH, E. Sieche
Updated: 12/07/06 © hgs 07/98
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