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The Austro-Hungarian Navy (''Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine'', shortened to k.u.k. Kriegsmarine) built a series of battleships between the early 1900s and 1917. To defend its Adriatic coast in wartime, Austria-Hungary had previously built a series of smaller ironclad warships, including coastal defense ships, and armored cruisers. The appointment of Admiral Hermann von Spaun to the post of State Secretary of the Navy in 1897 accelerated naval construction and under the command of Franz Joseph I of Austria, the k.u.k. Kriegsmarine began a program of naval expansion at the beginning of the 20th century. The navy immediately pushed for the construction of the three s, after which soon followed three of the , all of which were pre-dreadnoughts. Several years passed before the s were built. These were the last pre-dreadnought battleships to be built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy and were soon succeeded by the being built within three more years. They were the country's only class of dreadnoughts. Near the beginning of World War I, the navy started discussions on the construction of a second class of dreadnoughts named the to replace the old ''Monarch''s. The plans were canceled in 1917, and no new battleships were built after that. Overall, within a period of 13 years, the Austro-Hungarian Navy had produced 13 battleships. All of the ships saw service in World War I, although the diversion of coal, which was scarce, to the newer ''Tegetthoff'' and ''Radetzky'' classes limited the service of the remaining battleships. Following the defeat of Austria-Hungary in World War I, the empire was dismantled and all of the battleships were handed over to France, Great Britain, the United States, and Italy. == ''Habsburg'' class == (詳細は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. The ''Habsburg''-class was also the first class of seagoing battleships the Austrio-Hungarian Navy built since the construction of the ship ''Tegetthoff'' 24 years earlier in 1876. The class was composed of three ships: , , and . The members of the ''Habsburg''-class were built in the Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino shipyards in Trieste. The lead ship of the class, ''Habsburg'', was launched on 9 September 1900. ''Árpád'' followed a year later, with her launching on 11 September 1901. The last ship of the class was the ''Babenberg'', launched on 4 October 1902. The first two ships, ''Habsburg'' and ''Árpád'', were modernized either in 1910 and 1911 respectively, or in 1911 and 1912, by having one deck of the superstructure removed. At the outbreak of World War I in late July 1914, ''Habsburg'' was serving as the flagship of the III Battleship Division of the Austro-Hungarian fleet, under the command of Captain Miklós Horthy, alongside her two sisters. They were later transferred to the IV Division after the new s came into service. All three battleships saw a limited service during World War I as members of the IV Division of the Austro-Hungarian fleet. While both ''Babenburg'' and ''Árpád'' participated in the bombardment of the Italian port city of Ancona in 1915, the class was largely inactive for the remainder of the war, serving as coastal defense ships. All three were decommissioned in 1916 in order to allow their crews to serve in the Austro-Hungarian air force and as crew members of Austro-Hungarian U-boats. Following the end of World War I, all of the ''Habsburg''-class battleships were handed over to Great Britain. They were then sold to Italy and broken up in 1921. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of battleships of Austria-Hungary」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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