Drache-class ironclad
![]() Drache at anchor after her 1867 refit | |
Class overview | |
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Builders: | Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino, Trieste |
Operators: |
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Preceded by: | None |
Succeeded by: | Kaiser Max class |
Built: | 1861–62 |
In commission: | 1862–83 |
Completed: | 2 |
Scrapped: | 2 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Type: | Drache-class armored frigate |
Displacement: | 2,707 long tons (2,750 t) |
Length: | 62.78 m (206 ft 0 in) |
Beam: | 13.94 m (45 ft 9 in) |
Draft: | 6.3 m (20 ft 8 in) |
Installed power: | 1,842 ihp (1,374 kW) |
Propulsion: | 1 shaft, 1 steam engine |
Speed: | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
Complement: | 346 |
Armament: | 18 × 24-pounder rifled muzzle-loading guns 10 × 48-pounder smoothbore guns |
Armor: | Waterline belt: 115 mm (4.5 in) |
The Drache-class ironclad was a class of armored frigates built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the 1860s.
Footnotes
References
- Gardiner, Robert; Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-133-5.
- Sullivan, J. T. (1880). "Navies of the World". The United Service (Philadelphia, PA: L. R. Hamersly & Co.) III: 688–690.