SMS Salamander
Salamander before her 1867 refit
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 Austro-Hungarian Empire
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| Name: | SMS Salamander |
| Namesake: | Salamander |
| Builder: | Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino, Trieste |
| Laid down: | February 1861 |
| Launched: | 22 August 1861 |
| Completed: | May 1862 |
| Reclassified: | Mine hulk |
| Struck: | 18 March 1883 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1895–1896 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Type: | Drache-class armored frigate |
| Displacement: | 3,110 long tons (3,160 t) |
| Length: | 70.1 meters (230 ft 0 in) |
| Beam: | 13.94 m (45 ft 9 in) |
| Draft: | 6.8 m (22 ft 4 in) |
| Installed power: | 2,060 ihp (1,540 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 1 shaft, 1 steam engine |
| Speed: | 10.5 knots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph) |
| Complement: | 346 |
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| Armor: | Waterline belt: 115 mm (4.5 in) |
SMS Salamander was a Drache-class armored frigate built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the 1860s; she was laid down in February 1861, launched in August that year, and completed in May 1862, six months before her sister Drache. She was a broadside ironclad, mounting a battery of twenty-eight guns in gun ports along the length the hull. During the Second Schleswig War in 1864, Salamander remained in the Adriatic to protect Austria from a possible Danish attack that did not materialize. Two years later, during the Seven Weeks' War, she participated in the Austrian victory over a superior Italian fleet in the Battle of Lissa in July 1866. Immediately after the war, she was modernized with a battery of more powerful guns. Little used thereafter owing to reduced naval budgets, she was stricken from the Navy List in 1883 and hulked for use as a mine storage ship before being broken up in 1895–1896.
The Drache class was designed in response to the Formidabile-class ironclads bought from France by Italy in 1860. They had an overall length of 70.1 meters (230 ft 0 in), a beam of 13.94 m (45 ft 9 in) and a draft of 6.8 meters (22 ft 4 in). They displaced 2,824 long tons (2,869 t) at normal load, and 3,110 long tons (3,160 t) at deep load. The ships had a horizontal steam engine that drove their single propeller using steam provided by four boilers that exhausted through one funnel. The engine produced a total of 2,060 indicated horsepower (1,540 kW) which gave the ships a speed of 10.5 knots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph). For long-distance travel, the Draches were fitted with three masts and barque rigged. The ships had a complement of 346 officers and crewmen.
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