By: beistrich - 29th January 2005 at 10:20
or visit: http://www.doppeladler.com/kuk/
sorry this site is in german
edit: The uncle of my grandfather was on the Viribus Unitis
SO there is no navy? Not even a river/lake based one? What do they have in Danube?
two patrol boats:
The “Niederösterreich”
http://www.bh-infoecke.linzland.info/frameset.htm
und “Oberst Brecht”
By: Distiller - 29th January 2005 at 10:13
As if Serbia played a role! Appendices of the Zsar. The Austrian-Hungarian monarchy was a major European power, Serbia – . But who cares. That war was to come anyways.
Today the Austria has two cockamamy PPs on the danube.
By: SerbPVO - 29th January 2005 at 04:40
SO there is no navy? Not even a river/lake based one? What do they have in Danube?
Anyways, what IF Austria-Hungary never messed with Serbia in 1914?
Would the situation be different today?
By: Distiller - 27th January 2005 at 09:49
Look here! http://people.freenet.de/kriegsmarine/basis.htm
http://www.viribusunitis.ca/
The K.u.K. Kriegsmarine e.g. conducted the first battle of armored ocean going ships. Against Italy off Lissa. http://www.lissa.net/orleans/LIsola_di_Lissa/lissab.html
That battle, where ramming was the only way to sink enemy armored ship, influenced the way heavy man of war were built for the next 50 or so years, with that negative prow for ramming.
Ah, yes, and the Austrians won.
By: fantasma_337 - 27th January 2005 at 03:54
IIRC an Austrian Naval officer had an idea about a “self propelled weapon” which later became the torpedo as we know it today…
By: F-18 Hamburger - 26th January 2005 at 20:29
Does anyone have info & photos of Austrian & Hungarian ships?
Yes, they use the same times of frigates used by the Swiss Navy and while Hungary lent it’s sole SSK to Armenia.
By: Arabella-Cox - 26th January 2005 at 06:45
Yes, the Austro-Hungarian Empire did have access to the Adriatic Sea through what is now Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia Herzegovina (not Serbia). They had a sizable fleet with battleships displaceing up to 20,000t which was large at the time. Here is a good website about the Kaiserlich und Koniglich Kriegsmarine:
http://www.kuk-kriegsmarine.at/
As trivia I can mention that the leader of the Axis member Hungary during the second world war was a former fleet admiral in the KuK Kriegsmarine.
By: fantasma_337 - 26th January 2005 at 01:39
The Danube maybe…? I suppose there are some Police patrol boats there now…
In the days of the AustroHungary things were quite different BTW…
http://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyAustrian.htm
http://www.ahoy.tk-jk.net/macslog/TheGenesisoftheAustrianNa.html
By: Spectral - 26th January 2005 at 00:32
They had, upto WWI when they still controled the eastern shore of the Adriatic ( now Croatia, Serbia, etc)
SerbPVO, you might find something of interest her:
http://www.worldatwar.net/chandelle/
Click on the ‘October/November’ issue to the left, then you have “On the Edge of the Great War: Italian Combined Operations in the Adriatic, 1915-18”.
By: hallo84 - 25th January 2005 at 23:02
…they have a navy???
For what purpose and where the heck ar ethey going to port???
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