SMS Habsburg (1865)
Habsburg after her modernization
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 Austrian Empire
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| Name: | Habsburg |
| Namesake: | Habsburg |
| Builder: | Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino, Trieste |
| Laid down: | June 1863 |
| Launched: | 24 June 1865 |
| Commissioned: | June 1866 |
| Struck: | 22 October 1898 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1899–1900 |
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| Displacement: | 3,588 t (3,531 long tons; 3,955 short tons) |
| Length: | 83.75 meters (274 ft 9 in) oa |
| Beam: | 15.96 m (52 ft 4 in) |
| Draft: | 7.14 m (23 ft 5 in) |
| Installed power: | 2,925 indicated horsepower (2,181 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 1 single-expansion steam engine |
| Speed: | 12.54 knots (23.22 km/h; 14.43 mph) |
| Crew: | 511 |
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SMS Habsburg was the second and final member of the Erzherzog Ferdinand Max class of broadside ironclads built for the Austrian Navy in the 1860s. She was built by the Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino; her keel was laid down in June 1863, she was launched in June 1865, and commissioning in June 1866 at the outbreak of the Third Italian War of Independence and the Austro-Prussian War, fought concurrently. The ship was armed with a main battery of sixteen 48-pounder guns, though the rifled guns originally intended, which had been ordered from Prussia, had to be replaced with old smoothbore guns until after the conflicts ended.
Habsburg saw action at the Battle of Lissa in July 1866, though she was not significantly engaged during the battle. In 1870, she was used in a show of force to try to prevent the Italian annexation of Rome while the city's protector, France, was distracted with the Franco-Prussian War, though the Italians took the city regardless. The ship's armament was revised several times in the 1870s and 1880s, before she was ultimately withdrawn from frontline service and employed as a guard ship and a barracks ship in Pola in 1886. She served in this role until 1898 when she was stricken from the naval register and broken up for scrap in 1899–1900.
Habsburg was 83.75 meters (274 ft 9 in) long overall; she had a beam of 15.96 m (52 ft 4 in) and an average draft of 7.14 m (23 ft 5 in). She displaced 5,130 metric tons (5,050 long tons; 5,650 short tons). She had a crew of 511. Her propulsion system consisted of one single-expansion steam engine that drove a single screw propeller. The number and type of her coal-fired boilers have not survived. Her engine produced a top speed of 12.54 knots (23.22 km/h; 14.43 mph) from 2,925 indicated horsepower (2,181 kW).
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