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 DEFENCE

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III. Navy.

Estimates (expenditure), 1912, 2,989,884/.; 1911, 2,860,717?.; 1910,

2,781, 550Z. . . ■ ^ ■ A

The Austro- Hungarian navy is mainly a coast defensive torce, maintained in a state of high efficiency, and including a flotilla of monitors for the Danube. It is administered by the Naval Department of the Ministry of War The new ships are to replace others growing obsolete, and the pro- crranime provides for a fleet of 12 armourclads between 20,000 and 30,000 tons, 5 second-class cruisers (4,000 to 7,000 tons), 6 third-class cruisers (1,500 to 2,500 tons), 19 torpedo boat destroyers, and 83 various torpedo boats, exclusive of che Danube flotillas. The headquarters of the fleet are at Pola, and there are other establishments upon the Dalmatian coast. The Austro- Hungarian fleet is thus constituted : —

1911

Eftective end of 1912 1913

1914

Dreadnoughts. Pre-Dreadnoughts Cruisers armoured Cruisers. Torpedo gunboats Destroyers Torpedo boats. Submarines

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1

2

4

1 12

12

12

12

3

3

3

3

6

6

9

9

7

7

7

1

12

12

18

—

57

57

65

—

6

6

6

The following table shows the principal ships of the Austro-Hungarian navy in similar arrangement to that adopted for the British navy.

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Name

Dreadkoughts— 1910 Viribus Unitis.

1910 1911

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iNo. 5 \No. 7

Pre-Dbeadnoughts —

(Monarch Wien . Budapest

I'Habsburg 1899{Arpad. iVBabenberg

i /Erzherzog Karl. 1901 -[Erzherzog Friedrich ilErz. Ferdinand Max

rErz. Franz Ferdinand 1907 { Radetzsky jVZrinyi.

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(P^

C

a «

o

s a

U CO

1 '^^

P S

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O 3

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Principal Armament

20,300 11 11

5,600 8,300 10,600 14,500

m 10^

8f ^

8 I 91

i

9 10

12 12-in., 12 6-in. .

4 9-4-in., 6 6-in. .

3 9-4in. ; 12 6in. .

4 9-4-in., 12 7-6-in. 4 12-in., S9'4-in. .

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25.000

20

8,000 ! 170

15,000 j 19

t

18,0001 20

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20,000 20