SMS Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand

SMS Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand

SMS Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand on gunnery trials in 1908
History
Austria-Hungary
Name	SMS Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand
Namesake	Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Owner	Austro-Hungarian Navy
Builder	Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino
Laid down	12 September 1907
Launched	8 September 1908
Commissioned	5 June 1910
Fate	Ceded to Italy
Italy
Decommissioned	1926
Fate	Scrapped 1926
General characteristics [1][2][3]
Class and type	Radetzky-class battleship
Displacement	14,508 long tons (14,741 t) standard 15,845.5 long tons (16,100 t) full load
Length	137.5 m (451 ft 1 in)
Beam	24.6 m (80 ft 9 in)
Draft	8.1 m (26 ft 7 in)
Installed power	19,800 ihp (14,765 kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts, 2 vertical triple expansion steam engines 12 Yarrow-type coal-fired boilers
Speed	20.5 knots (38.0 km/h; 23.6 mph)
Range	4,000 nmi (7,408 km; 4,603 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	890
Armament	4 × 30.5 cm (12.0 in) guns 8 × 24 cm (9.4 in) guns 20 × 10 cm (3.9 in) K10 rapid-fire cannons 4 × 7 cm (2.8 in) anti-aircraft guns 4 × 47 mm (1.9 in) guns 3 × 45 cm (18 in) torpedo tubes
Armor	Belt: 230 mm (9.1 in) Deck: 48 mm (1.9 in) Bulkhead: 54 mm (2.1 in) Main turrets: 250 mm (9.8 in) Secondary turrets: 200 mm (7.9 in) Casemates: 120 mm (4.7 in) Conning tower: 250 mm (9.8 in)

SMS Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand ^[a] was an Austro-Hungarian Radetzky-class pre-dreadnought battleship commissioned into the Austro-Hungarian Navy on 5 June 1910.^[b] She was named after Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The first ship of her class to be built, she preceded Radetzky by more than six months. Her armament included four 30.5 cm (12 in) guns in two twin turrets, and eight 24 cm (9.4 in) guns in four twin turrets.

She participated in an international naval protest of the Balkan Wars in 1913, during which she helped enforce a blockade of Montenegro. She was also one of the first ships to deploy seaplanes for military use. During World War I, she saw limited service in the 2nd Division of the 1st Battle Squadron, including mobilization to assist the escape of the German ships SMS Goeben and SMS Breslau and the bombardment of Ancona in 1915. At the end of the war, she was ceded to Italy as a war prize and was eventually scrapped in 1926.

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