Austro-Hungarian battleship Prinz Eugen 1912-1922

Austrian-Hungarian Radetzky-class

Austrian-HungarianTegethoff-class

Italian Dante Alighieri

Part of the Tegethoff-class consisting of the Tegethoff, Viribus Unitis, Prinz Eugen and Szent István, preceded by the Radetzky-class and succeeded by the Ersatz Monarch-class. Designed/built as an answer on the Italian dreadnought Dante Alighieri. Building ordered in 1908. Laid down at the Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino yard, Trieste, Italy on 16 January 1912, launched on 30 November 1912, commissioned on 8 July 1914, after the First World War ceded to France, disarmed and sunk as gunnery target in the Atlantic Ocean in June 1922.

Displacement 20.000 (standard)-21,900 (maximum) tons and as dimensions 152,20 x 27,30 x 8,90 metres or 449’4” x 89’7” x 29’2”. The machinery consisted of 4 Parsons steam turbines and 12 coal fired Yarrow boilers via 4 shafts supplying 27.000 shp allowing a speed of 29 knots and with a speed of 10 knots with a coal bunker capacity of 2.000 tons a range of 4.200 nautical miles. Coal bunker capacity 1.844,5 tons with 267,2 tons for spraying fuel oil on the coal to improve the burning. Crew numbered 1.097 men. Armament consisted of 4x3-30,5cm/12” 45cal K 10guns, 12x1-15cm/5.9” 50/cal K 10 guns in casemates, 18x1-7cm/3”/11pd 50 cal K 10guns,3x1-6,6cm K 10 anti aircraft guns and 4-53,3cm/21” submerged torpedo tubes (1xbow,2 x sides, 1 stern) for which 12 torpedoes were carried. Armour consisted of a 6-28cm/11” thick belt, 3cm/1.2-4,8cm/2” thick deck with the gun turrets and casemates protected by respectively 4,8cm/2”-28cm/11” and 4.7/18cm”.