Kaiserin Elisabeth 1892
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Kaiser Franz Joseph I | 233 | STT, San Rocco | 3.1.1888 | 18.5.1889 | 2.7.1890 | floating HQ 1917 | |
| Kaiserin Elisabeth | Marinearsenal Pola | 7/1888 | 25.9.1890 | 24.1.1892 | scuttled 2.11.1914 |
|
Displacement normal, t |
3967 |
|
Displacement full, t |
4494 |
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Length, m |
103.7 oa 97.9 pp |
|
Breadth, m |
14.8 |
|
Draught, m |
5.70 |
|
No of shafts |
2 |
|
Machinery |
2 3-cyl HTE, 10 cylindrical boilers |
|
Power, h. p. |
8450 |
|
Max speed, kts |
19 |
|
Fuel, t |
coal 670 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 3500(10) |
| Armour, mm | steel; barbettes: 90, deck: 38, hull: 57, CT: 50 |
|
Armament |
2 x 1 - 238/32 G. L/35 C.86, 6 x 1 - 149/33 G. L/35 K.86 apt, 2 x 1 - 66/16 G. L/18, 5 x 1 - 47/40 SFK L/44 H, 4 x 1 - 47/30 SFK L/33 H, 3 x 1 - 37/20 SFK L/23 H, 4 - 400 TT (1 bow, 2 beam, 1 stern) |
|
Complement |
367 |
Project history: These two light cruisers were officially designed as 'torpedo ram cruisers'. At the outbreak of the First World War both ships were obsolete.
Ship protection: Steel deck had 38mm thickness. Barbettes was 90mm thick. CT had 50mm sides.
Modernizations: 1905-1906, both: - 2 x 1 - 238/32, 2 x 1 - 47/30, 3 x 1 - 37/20; + 2 x 1 - 149/37 G. L/40 K.96, 7 x 1 - 47/40 SFK L/44 H
Naval service: Kaiser Franz Joseph I was used as a harbour defence ship at Cattaro. In 1917 she was completely disarmed and became a floating headquarters. She was ceded to France as war reparation and foundered off Kumbor in the Bay of Cattaro in 1919. Kaiserin Elisabeth was stationed in China in 1914 and took part in the defence of the German naval base at Tsingtao. Her 15cm and 47mm guns were removed and mounted ashore in the 'Elisabeth' battery. She was scuttled on 2 November 1914, two days before the base surrendered to the Japanese.
Kaiserin Elisabeth
Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.
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