Novara (ship)
Image of frigate Novara from expedition report Voyage of the Austrian Frigate Novara around the Earth (1861–1876), published in 21 volumes written over 15 years.
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| Name: | SMS Novara |
| Namesake: | Battle of Novara (1849) |
| Builder: | Venetian Arsenal, Venice |
| Laid down: | 20 September 1843 |
| Launched: | 4 November 1850 |
| Completed: | June 1851 |
| Decommissioned: | Hulked, 22 August 1876 |
| Reclassified: | Gunnery training ship, 22 June 1881 |
| Struck: | 22 October 1898 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1899 |
| General characteristics as reconstructed in 1862 | |
| Type: | Screw frigate |
| Displacement: | 2,615 t (2,574 long tons) |
| Length: | 76.79 m (251 ft 11 in) |
| Beam: | 14.32 m (47 ft 0 in) |
| Draft: | 5.8 m (19 ft 0 in) |
| Installed power: | 1,200 ihp (890 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 1 shaft, 1 steam engine |
| Speed: | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Range: | 3,300 nmi (6,100 km; 3,800 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement: | 550 |
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SMS Novara was a sail frigate of the Austro-Hungarian Navy most noted for sailing the globe for the Novara Expedition of 1857–1859 and, later for carrying Archduke Maximilian and wife Carlota to Veracruz in May 1864 to become Emperor and Empress of Mexico.
SMS Novara was a frigate that circumnavigated the earth in the course of the Austrian Imperial expedition of 1857–1859, during the reign of (Kaiser) Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. It was a sailing ship with three masts of sails and six decks, outfitted with 42 cannons, and had a water displacement of nearly 2,107 tons.
Between 1843 and 1899 SMS Novara had several different names and configurations: originally named Minerva when the lengthy construction started in Venice during 1843, the partially completed frigate was renamed Italia by Venetian revolutionaries in 1848, finally launched with the name Novara in 1850, and converted to a steam cruiser during 1861–1865.
The name Novara originated with the Battle of Novara in March 1849: following the Austrians' retaking of Venice in August 1849, Field Marshal Radetzky visited the shipyard there, and the officers petitioned him to have the nearly-completed Italia renamed in honour of his victory over King Charles Albert at the Italian town of Novara. The ship was subsequently christened "Novara" in 1849, and construction restarted in earnest under Austrian supervision. The hull left the slipway the following year, in November 1850.
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