Exploring the Austro-Hungarian Navy: A Historical Quiz Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

the four Ersatz Monarch class battleships planned for the Austro-Hungarian Navy were expected to cost 82 million kronen each, but none were ever completed.

the three Habsburg class battleships were the first ocean-going battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy since the ironclad SMS Tegetthoff of the 1870s.

under the command of Georg Ritter von Trapp, the World War I Austro-Hungarian Navy U-boat SM U-14 sank the Italian steamship Milazzo (pictured), reported as the largest cargo ship in the world.

within a period of 13 years, the Austro-Hungarian Navy succeeded in producing 13 battleships.

the Austro-Hungarian U-27 class of submarines had more members than any other Austro-Hungarian Navy submarine class.

plans for the Royal Danish Navy's 1911 Havmanden-class submarines (pictured) were seized by the Austro-Hungarian Navy during the First World War and used as the basis for their own U-20-class submarines.

SM U-4, commissioned in 1909, was the longest serving U-boat of the Austro-Hungarian Navy.

SM U-5, ceded to Italy in 1920 as war reparations, was the only member of the U-5-class submarines of the Austro-Hungarian Navy to survive World War I.

although construction of two submarines each from the U-48, U-50, and U-52 classes of the Austro-Hungarian Navy began in 1916, none were completed by the end of World War I two years later.

in 1917, a fleet of 47 naval drifters, used by the British to blockade the Otranto Straits, was attacked by the Austro-Hungarian Navy.

SM U-10 and SM U-11, which were U-10-class submarines constructed in Germany and shipped to Austria-Hungary by rail, were both commissioned into the German Imperial Navy and the Austro-Hungarian Navy during World War I.

Exploring the Austro-Hungarian Navy: A Historical Quiz

1 The Austro-Hungarian Navy eventually built four ________ in the form of the Tegetthoff class battleships; these were opposed by six Dreadnoughts of the Italian Regia Marina.

2 Led by the naval officer Karl Weyprecht and the infantry officer and landscape artist Julius Payer, the custom-built ________ Tegetthoff left Tromsø in July 1872.

3 What was the primary operational area of the Austro-Hungarian Navy during World War I?

4 The city of Pola was also the site of the central church of the navy "Stella Maris" (k.u.k. Marinekirche "Stella Maris"), of the Austro-Hungarian Naval Observatory and the empire's naval ________ (k.u.k. Marinefriedhof).

5 However, the barrage effectively meant that the Austro-Hungarian surface fleet could not leave the ________ unless it was willing to give battle to the blocking forces.

6 A surprise attack was planned but an Italian torpedo boat by chance spotted the flotilla, and launched two torpedoes hitting one of the four Austrian ________, the SMS Szent István.

7 Later awarded the ________ in 1927.

8 The Second Schleswig War was the 1864 invasion of ________ by Prussia and Austria.

9 Together with ________ the squadron fired several shells into a few of the rebel's ships, and then assaulted them with k.u.k.

10 Which of the following lists pertains to Austro-Hungarian submarines?

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