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unusual facts about Ranks in the Austro-Hungarian Navy


Ranks in the Austro-Hungarian Navy

Non-commissioned officers would be seamen 1st class (one white star) or Gasten and Quartiermeister depending on specialty (two white stars) and Maate (three white stars).


Anton Romako

His brother, Joseph von Romako, was a Naval Architect-Inspector of Austro-Hungarian Navy.

Cisleithania

According to the "December Constititution", a redraft of the emperor's 1861 February Patent, the Austrian government was generally responsible in all affairs concerning the Cisleithanian lands, except for the common Austro-Hungarian Army, the Austro-Hungarian Navy and the Foreign Ministry, these k.u.k. matters remained reserved for the Imperial and Royal Ministers' Council for Common Affairs of Austria-Hungary.

Dimitri Alexandrovich Obolensky

When news came of the Austro-Hungarian monitor bombardment of the Serbian city of Belgrade beginning on 29 July 1914, Obolensky spoke stirringly to the peasants on his estate of the need for war, and they reacted enthusiastically.

German Type U 66 submarine

The class was built by Germaniawerft of Kiel to their 506d design as the U-7-class for the Austro-Hungarian Navy.

Gottfried Freiherr von Banfield

His son Richard Banfield, born in Vienna in 1836 and educated in Austria, chose Austrian citizenship, became an officer of the k.u.k. Kriegsmarine and took part in the Battle of Lissa as one of the commanders on Wilhelm von Tegetthoff's flagship, the Erzherzog Ferdinand Max.

Imperial Free City of Trieste

The modern Austro-Hungarian Navy used Trieste's shipbuilding facilities for construction and as a base.

Juan Vucetich

The Croatian city of Pula has a memorial marker to Vucetich, owing to his service there while in the Austro-Hungarian Navy.

Museum of Military History, Vienna

Other notable exhibits include the huge medieval bombard, Pumhart von Steyr, the original shipbuilder's model of the battleship SMS Viribus Unitis, flagship of the Austro-Hungarian naval fleet during World War I, a French observation balloon, the oldest surviving European aircraft, L'Intrépide, and the wreck of SM U-20, an Austro-Hungarian Navy submarine sunk in combat in 1918.

Novara-class cruiser

The Novara class, known as Rapidkreuzer or Helgoland-Klasse (in English literally rapid cruiser ) was a class of light cruisers of the Austro-Hungarian Navy active during the First World War.

Pola Flotilla

The flotilla was made up of U-boats dispatched from German home ports, which travelled via the Atlantic and the Strait of Gibraltar, and coastal type UB- and UC- boats, which were moved in parts by rail to Pola and assembled there at the See-Arsenal of the Austro-Hungarian Navy (Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine: KuK).

Rimini railway station

Between 1915 and 1917, following the entry of Italy into World War I, the station was bombarded by the Austro-Hungarian Navy.

Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino

The following table lists the capital ships built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy.


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