SMS Prinz Eugen

Prinz Eugen

Ship data flag  Austria-Hungary Ship type Battleship class Tegetthoff class Shipyard Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino , Mulgs Launch November 30, 1912 Commissioning July 8, 1914 Whereabouts Sunk on June 28, 1922

Ship dimensions and crew length 152.2 m ( Lüa ) 151.0 m ( KWL ) width 27.3 m Draft Max. 8.6 m displacement Construction: 22,078 t Maximum: 22,860 t   crew 962 to 1,050 men

Machine system machine 12 Yarrow boilers 2 Parsons turbines Machine performance 25,000 PS (18,387 kW) Top speed 20.0 kn (37 km / h) propeller 4th

Armament 12 × Sk 30.5 cm L / 45 12 × Sk 15.0 cm L / 50 18 × Sk 7.0 cm 2 × torpedo tube ⌀ 53.3 cm (sides, under water) Armor Belt: 100-280 mm Citadel: 180-200 mm Armored deck: 48 mm Torpedo bulkhead: 36 mm Towers: 205 mm Barbettes: 280 mm Casemates: 100 mm Front command tower: 250–356 mm aft command tower: 250 mm

The SMS Prinz Eugen was a Tegetthoff class battleship of the Austro-Hungarian Navy . The name goes back to the Austrian general Eugen von Savoyen .

history

The ship was on 30 November 1912 in Trieste from the stack left and put into service on July 8 1914th

On August 7, 1914, the ship ran out in support of the German great cruiser Goeben ; however, this operation was canceled on August 8th. On May 23, 1915, the Prinz Eugen took part in the bombardment of the Italian coast around Ancona . On June 8, 1918, the Prinz Eugen took part in the last advance of the Austrian Navy, which was planned against the Otranto barrier . This advance was stopped after the loss of the battleship Szent István .

In the period from November 5 to December 1, 1918, the ship briefly carried the Italian flag.

The Prinz Eugen was awarded to France as spoils of war in 1920 and transferred to Toulon on August 25 of the same year . The Prinz Eugen came to an end on July 28, 1922, when she was sunk as a target ship by the French battleships France , Jean Bart , Paris and Bretagne with heavy artillery at a great distance.

Museum reception

The history of the Austro-Hungarian Navy is documented in detail in the Marinesaal of the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum in Vienna , with a cutaway model of the sister ship Viribus Unitis as well as contemporary representations in paintings and photographs of the Prinz Eugen .

literature

• Siegfried Breyer: Battleships and battle cruisers 1905–1970. JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1970, ISBN 3-88199-474-2 .
• Anthony Preston, Randal Gray (eds.): Conway's All the World Fighting Ships 1906-1921. Conway Maritime Press Ltd, London 1985, ISBN 0-85177-245-5 .
• Wladimir Aichelburg : Kuk Fleet 1900-1918 . Österreichische Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-8132-0573-8 .
• Richard Hough: Dreadnought. A History of the Modern Battleship. Periscope Publishing Ltd., Penzance 2003, ISBN 1-904381-11-1 .

Web links

• Website via the SMS Prinz Eugen

Footnotes

1. ^ Manfried Rauchsteiner , Manfred Litscher (Ed.): The Army History Museum in Vienna. Styria, Graz et al. 2000, ISBN 3-222-12834-0 , p. 84 f.