SMS Lissa

Lissa sometime before 1875
Class overview
Preceded by	Erzherzog Ferdinand Max class
Succeeded by	SMS Custoza
History
Austria-Hungary
Name	Lissa
Namesake	Battle of Lissa
Laid down	27 June 1867
Launched	25 February 1869
Commissioned	May 1871
Stricken	13 November 1892
Fate	Scrapped, 1893–1895
General characteristics
Type	Casemate ship
Displacement	7,086 long tons (7,200 t)
Length	89.38 m (293 ft 3 in) oa
Beam	17.32 m (56 ft 10 in)
Draft	8.5 m (27 ft 11 in)
Installed power	3,619 indicated horsepower (2,699 kW)
Propulsion	1 × marine steam engine 1 × screw propeller
Speed	12.83 knots (23.76 km/h; 14.76 mph)
Crew	620
Armament	12 × 9-inch (229 mm) guns 4 × 8-pounder guns 3 × 3-pounder guns
Armor	Side: 152 mm (6 in) Casemate: 127 mm (5 in) Bulkheads: 114 mm (4.5 in)

SMS Lissa, named for the Battle of Lissa, was a unique ironclad warship built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the 1860s and 1870s, the only member of her class. She was the first casemate ship built for Austria-Hungary, she was armed with a main battery of twelve 9-inch (229 mm) guns in a central armored casemate, unlike the earlier broadside ironclads. Construction of the ship lasted from June 1867 to May 1871, and was delayed by budgetary shortfalls; the lack of funding also plagued the ship during her career, preventing her from taking an active role in the fleet. She spent the majority of her time in service laid up in Pola, apart from a lengthy reconstruction in 1880–1881. Lissa was ultimately stricken from the fleet in 1892 and broken up for scrap starting the following year.