Frigate Lieutenant
Frigate lieutenant was an officer rank of the k. (u.) k. Navy and from 1908 corresponded to the first lieutenant (previously: captain 2nd class , until 1849 captain-lieutenant ) in the land forces. His equivalent in the German Imperial Navy was the first lieutenant at sea . Who was his subordinate from 1916 Corvette Lieutenant as equivalent to lieutenant of the army and pure reserve grade (for Zivilseeleute with a year's service in the Imperial Navy).
As part of the reorganization of the subordinate naval officer ranks, the frigate lieutenant had taken the place of the (line) ship's ensign, who had been abolished without replacement as the equivalent of the army first lieutenant. (The frigate ensign as the equivalent of the sub-lieutenant or lieutenant in the army was already omitted in 1859/1860.)
The rank designation is partly used in the successor states of Austria-Hungary , e.g. B. in the navies of Yugoslavia and Croatia .
The name is explained by the classification of warships into size classes, which was customary well into the 19th century, from the corvette to the frigate to the ship of the line . In the Austrian navy this led to appropriately formed titles: corvette captain (equivalent to major , rank identical to that of the German navy (s)), frigate captain ( lieutenant colonel , rank identical to that of the German navy (s)), and ship of the line (with the German navy captain at sea ).
In systematic correspondence, the ranking of naval subaltern officers in Austria-Hungary was dubbed as follows: Corvette lieutenant (from 1916, pure reserve rank and equivalent to lieutenant [at sea]), frigate lieutenant (corresponds to first lieutenant [at sea]) and ship of the line ( corresponds to the captain or German lieutenant captain ). This ranking has also been preserved in the Croatian Navy.