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Saturday 6 October 2012

Austrian-Hungarian torpedo depot ship Gaa (1890)-1909-1919 (1924)


Launched on 29 November 1890 as the German Fürst Bismarck for the Hamburg America Line at the shipyard AG Vulcan, in 1904 bought by Russia and renamed Don, in 1906 transferred to Dobroflot (Russian Voluntary Fleet) as the Moskva4, in 1909 purchased by the Austrian-Hungarian navy and commissioned as a mother ship for torpedo boats and submarines, seized in 1919 by Italy and converted into the steamship San Giusto and finally broken up in 1924. Details as the German Fürst Bismarck: with a tonnage of 8.430 tons and as dimensions 502 x 57,5 x 38 feet.