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ERZHERZOG ALBRECHT centre battery ship (1874)


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Erzherzog Albrecht 1882

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Erzherzog Albrecht     STT, Triest 1.6.1870 24.4.1872 6/1874 accommodation hulk 1908


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

5980

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

89.7 oa 87.9 wl

Breadth, m

17.2

Draught, m

6.72

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 2-cyl HRCR, 8 rectangular boilers

Power, h. p.

3969

Max speed, kts

12.8

Fuel, t

coal 500

Endurance, nm(kts)2300(10)
Armour, mmwrought iron; belt: 205, casemates: 175
Armament

8 x 1 - 235/20 G. L/22 C.74, 6 x 1 - 87/22 G. L/24 M.75

Complement

540



Standard scale images


<i>Erzherzog Albrecht </i>1892
Erzherzog Albrecht 1892
<i>Erzherzog Albrecht </i>1877
Erzherzog Albrecht 1877


Graphics


<i>Erzherzog Albrecht </i>after modernization  
Erzherzog Albrecht after modernization  
<i>Erzherzog Albrecht </i>1882
Erzherzog Albrecht 1882


Project history

Chief Engineer Romako designed two casemate ships, Custoza and Erzherzog Albrecht - the first iron ships of the Austro-Hungarian Navy - after studying the results of the Battle of Lissa. He arranged the guns at two levels, so that they could bear forward while the ship was speeding up to ram the enemy. His designs emphasised less speed and fewer guns, in favour of high defensive capability.

Ship protection

The belt protected all ship length and extended from 1.2m under wl to 2.4m above. It was 203mm-thick amidships and 120mm at ship ends and was backed by 200mm teak layer. Two-deck casemate (16m long) was connected with upper edge of the belt and was backed by 260mm wood. Lower part was protected by 178mm sides and 127mm transverse bulkheads, upper part by 152mm sides and 127mm fwd and 114mm aft transverse bulkheads.

Modernizations

1880s: + 2 x 1 - 66/16 G. L/18, 4 - 350 TT (1 bow, 2 beam, 1 stern)

1892: + 4 x 1 - 47/30 SFK L/33 H, 5 x 5 - 47/22 SFK L/25 H, 2 x 5 - 25/41 Nordenfeldt; also one funnel was replaced by two

Naval service

Erzherzog Albrecht saw active service from 1874 to 1908. In 1908 she was renamed Feuerspeier and became the tender of the gunnery training ship, and from October 1915 she served as accommodation ship for German naval personnel. In 1920 she was ceded to Italy as war reparation and renamed Buttafuoco.