SMS Árpád

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Árpád
Model of the Árpád
Model of the Árpád
Ship data
flag Austria-HungaryAustria-Hungary (naval war flag) Austria-Hungary
Ship type Battleship
class Habsburg class
Shipyard Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino , Mulgs
building-costs 18 million crowns without guns and ammunition
Launch September 11, 1901
Commissioning June 15, 1903
Whereabouts scrapped after 1922
Ship dimensions and crew
length
114.57 m ( Lüa )
width 21.2 m
Draft Max. 7.49 m
displacement Construction: 8,364 /> maximum: 8,964
 
crew 638 men
Machine system
machine 2 × 4-cylinder STT steam engine
16 × Maudslay boiler
Machine
performance 		13,340 hp (9,812 kW)
Top
speed 		19.6 kn (36 km / h)
propeller 2
Armament
  • 3 × 24 cm (double tower in front, single tower aft)
  • 12 × 15.0 cm L / 40 k
  • 10 × 7.0 cm L / 45
  • 2 × torpedo tube ⌀ 45 cm (under water with 6 torp.)
Armor
  • Belt: 180-220 mm
  • Deck: 40 mm
  • Gun: 210-280 mm
  • Torpedo bulkhead: 36 mm

SMS Árpád was a Habsburg class battleship of the Austro-Hungarian Navy . The name refers to the Hungarian ruling family of the Árpáden .

history

The ship was on 13 March 1899 at the Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino shipyard as the second ship of the Habsburg-class set to Kiel and from the September 11, 1901 left stack . On March 10, 1903 the transfer to the main war port in Pula took place , where the ship was put into service on June 5, 1903.

From March 1904 to June 1906 the Árpád made several trips abroad to the eastern Mediterranean and during this time took part in the imperial maneuver in Dalmatia in the summer of 1906 . In 1911, the Stabilimento tecnico Triestino shipyard in Trieste underwent a renovation, which particularly concerned the reduction of the superstructures. At the beginning of the First World War , the Árpad was assigned to the IV Division under Rear Admiral Karl Seidensacher on August 1, 1914 , with Alois Schusterschitz in command . Right at the beginning of the war there was a departure to enable the German ships Goeben and Breslau to break through into the Adriatic. The operation was canceled after the two ships headed for Turkey. At the end of 1914 she ran out to seize the French submarine Curie. After Italy declared war, the Árpád ran out on May 23, 1915, together with the two sister ships Habsburg and Babenberg, for war operations in the Adriatic , namely the attack on Ancona and the bombardment of other targets in the region. On December 17, 1917, Cortelazzo was shot at at the mouth of the Piave to provide fire support to the advancing kuk infantry. After the war ended, the ship was awarded to Great Britain; However, it was still in Pula until May 1922 and was then canceled by the Roman steelworks Vaccaro & Co.

Museum reception

The history of the Austro-Hungarian Navy is documented in detail in the Marine Hall of the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (HGM) , there is also a 1:50 model of the Árpád . In the Archduke Franz Ferdinand Museum, Artstetten Castle in Lower Austria , there are paintings by the marine painter Alexander Kircher , which show the ships of the Habsburg class.

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