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Naval ensign: 1786–1915. The Naval Section of the War Ministry Headquarters. The Austro-Hungarian Navy or Imperial and Royal War Navy ( German: kaiserliche und königliche Kriegsmarine, in short k.u.k. Kriegsmarine, Hungarian: Császári és Királyi Haditengerészet) was the naval force of Austria-Hungary.
Habsburg class. SMS Habsburg on trials in the upper Adriatic in 1901. The Habsburg -class battleships were the first class of pre-dreadnought battleships to be built by Austria-Hungary between 1899 and 1902. The construction of the Habsburg -class battleships marked the beginning of the naval expansion program by the Austro-Hungarian Navy.
SMS Kaiser Max (1862) SMS Prinz Eugen (1862) SMS Don Juan d'Austria (1862) Erzherzog Ferdinand Max class. SMS Erzherzog Ferdinand Max (1865) SMS Habsburg (1865) SMS Lissa (1869) SMS Kaiser (1858) – former ship of the line, re-launched 1871 as ironclad.
The Austro-Hungarian Navy ( Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine, shortened to k.u.k. Kriegsmarine) built a series of U-boats between 1907 and 1918 to defend its coastline and project naval power into the Adriatic and Mediterranean Seas in wartime. With the establishment of the Austrian Naval League in September 1904 and the appointment of ...
List of cruisers of Austria-Hungary. The armored cruiser SMS Kaiser Karl VI. 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 Zara class begun in the ...
List of ironclad warships of Austria-Hungary. Between the 1860s and the 1880s, the Austro-Hungarian Navy acquired a fleet of seventeen ironclad warships, including broadside ironclads, central battery ships and barbette ships. The first generation of ships, the seven broadside ironclads of the Drache, Kaiser Max and Erzherzog Ferdinand Max ...
The rank insignia of the Austro-Hungarian Navy were worn on and on sleeves for navy jackets and coats, or on shoulder straps of shirts and white jackets. Officers' ranks were indicated by lines of 1.3 centimetres (0.51 in) gold braid as were senior non-commissioned officers' ranks, enlisted men's rank was indicated by white stars on their square collar flaps.
SMS Wien [a] ("His Majesty's Ship Vienna") was one of three Monarch -class coastal defense ships built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the 1890s. After her commissioning, the ship participated in an international blockade of Crete during the Greco-Turkish War of 1897. Wien and the two other Monarch -class ships made several training cruises in ...