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Kaiserin Elisabeth Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Kaiser Franz Joseph I		233	STT, San Rocco	3.1.1888	18.5.1889	2.7.1890	floating HQ 1917
Kaiserin Elisabeth			Marinearsenal Pola	7/1888	25.9.1890	24.1.1892	scuttled 2.11.1914

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	3967
Displacement full, t	4494
Length, m	103.7 oa 97.9 pp
Breadth, m	14.8
Draught, m	5.70
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 3-cyl HTE, 10 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	8450
Max speed, kts	19
Fuel, t	coal 670
Endurance, nm(kts)	3500(10)
Armour, mm	steel; barbettes: 90, deck: 38, hull: 57, CT: 50
Armament	2 x 1 - 238/32 G. L/35 C.86, 6 x 1 - 149/33 G. L/35 K.86 apt, 2 x 1 - 66/16 G. L/18, 5 x 1 - 47/40 SFK L/44 H, 4 x 1 - 47/30 SFK L/33 H, 3 x 1 - 37/20 SFK L/23 H, 4 - 400 TT (1 bow, 2 beam, 1 stern)
Complement	367

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Project history

These two light cruisers were officially designed as 'torpedo ram cruisers'. At the outbreak of the First World War both ships were obsolete.

Ship protection

Steel deck had 38mm thickness. Barbettes was 90mm thick. CT had 50mm sides.

Modernizations

1905-1906, both: - 2 x 1 - 238/32, 2 x 1 - 47/30, 3 x 1 - 37/20; + 2 x 1 - 149/37 G. L/40 K.96, 7 x 1 - 47/40 SFK L/44 H

Naval service

Kaiser Franz Joseph I was used as a harbour defence ship at Cattaro. In 1917 she was completely disarmed and became a floating headquarters. She was ceded to France as war reparation and foundered off Kumbor in the Bay of Cattaro in 1919. Kaiserin Elisabeth was stationed in China in 1914 and took part in the defence of the German naval base at Tsingtao. Her 15cm and 47mm guns were removed and mounted ashore in the 'Elisabeth' battery. She was scuttled on 2 November 1914, two days before the base surrendered to the Japanese.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.