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Corvette Lieutenant was an officer rank of the k. (u.) k. Navy and corresponded to the lieutenant in the land forces. His equivalent in the German Imperial Navy was the lieutenant at sea . The rank Lieutenant Lieutenant was awarded in the Imperial and Royal Navy only to reserve officers. The lowest officer rank for professional officers was the frigate lieutenant , (equivalent to the first lieutenant at sea in the Imperial Navy). The rank designation was partly used in the successor states of Austria-Hungary , e.g. B. in the navies of Yugoslavia and Croatia .
The title is explained by the classification of warships into size classes, which was customary well into the 19th century, starting with the smallest, the corvette , through the frigate to the ship of the line . In the Austrian navy this led to appropriately formed titles: corvette captain (equivalent to major , title identical to that of the German navy (es)), frigate captain ( lieutenant colonel , title identical to that of the German navy (es)), and ship of the line (equivalent to the colonel , in the German navy: captain at sea ).
In systematic correspondence, the ranking of naval subaltern officers in Austria-Hungary was dubbed as follows: Corvette lieutenant (as equivalent to lieutenant at sea ), frigate lieutenant (equivalent to first lieutenant at sea ) and lieutenant of the line (equivalent to German captainleutnant ). This ranking has also been preserved in the Croatian Navy.