SMS Drache
 Drache at anchor after her 1867 refit | |
| Career (Austro-Hungarian Empire) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | SMS Drache |
| Namesake: | Dragon |
| Builder: | Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino, Trieste |
| Laid down: | February 1861 |
| Launched: | 9 September 1861 |
| Completed: | November 1862 |
| Struck: | 13 June 1875 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1883 |
| 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) |
SMS Drache was a Drache-class armored frigate 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.