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Sunday, 30 December 2018

Austrian armoured cruiser 1st class Kaiserin und Königin Maria Theresia 1891-1920

Opening Kiel Canal, Kiel, Germany, June 1895

Laid down by Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino, Trieste [nowadays Italy] on 1 July 1891, launched on 29 April 1893, commissioned in November 1894, in the Firt World War serving as harbour guard ship and afterwards as barracks, ceded as war reparations to United Kingdom in 1920 and sold to be broken up.