SMS Prinz Eugen (1877)

Prinz Eugen in her original configuration
History
Austria-Hungary
Name:	Prinz Eugen
Builder:	Pola Naval Arsenal
Laid down:	October 1874
Launched:	7 September 1877
Commissioned:	November 1878
Struck:	30 December 1912
Fate:	Confiscated by Italy, 1919, fate unknown
General characteristics
Class and type:	Kaiser Max class
Displacement:	3,548 metric tons (3,492 long tons; 3,911 short tons)
Length:	75.87 meters (248.9 ft) o/a 73.23 m (240.3 ft) lwl
Beam:	15.25 m (50.0 ft)
Draft:	6.15 m (20.2 ft)
Installed power:	2,755 ihp (2,054 kW)
Propulsion:	1 × steam engine 1 ×screw
Speed:	13.28 knots (24.59 km/h; 15.28 mph)
Crew:	400
Armament:	8 × 21 cm (8.3 in) guns 4 × 9 cm (3.5 in) guns 2 × 7 cm (2.8 in) guns 6 × 47 cm (19 in) guns 3 × 47 cm (19 in) guns 2 × 25 cm (9.8 in) guns 4 × 35 cm (14 in) torpedo tubes
Armor:	Belt: 203 mm (8.0 in) Casemate: 125 mm (4.9 in)

SMS Prinz Eugen was an ironclad warship built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the 1870s, the third and final member of the Kaiser Max class. The ship was supposedly the same vessel that had been laid down in 1861, and had simply been reconstructed. In reality, the head of the Austro-Hungarian Navy could not secure funding for new ships, but reconstruction projects were uncontroversial, so he "rebuilt" the three earlier Kaiser Max-class ironclads. Only the engines and parts of the armor plate were reused in the new Prinz Eugen, which was laid down in October 1874, launched in September 1877, and commissioned in November 1878. The ship spent significant periods out of service, in part due to slender naval budgets that prevented much active use. In 1880, she took part in an international naval demonstration against the Ottoman Empire, and she went to Spain in 1888 for the Barcelona Universal Exposition. Prinz Eugen was stricken in 1904 and converted into a repair ship in 1906–1909. She was renamed Vulkan and served in this capacity through World War I; after the war, she was seized by Italy but was awarded to Yugoslavia in the postwar peace negotiations. Italy refused to hand the ship over, however, and her ultimate fate is unknown.

Prinz Eugen was 75.87 meters (248.9 ft) long overall and 73.23 m (240.3 ft) long at the waterline; she had a beam of 15.25 m (50.0 ft) and an average draft of 6.15 m (20.2 ft). She displaced 3,548 metric tons (3,492 long tons; 3,911 short tons). She had a crew of 400 officers and men. Her propulsion system consisted of one single-expansion steam engine that drove a single screw propeller. The number and type of her coal-fired boilers have not survived. Her engine produced a top speed of 13.28 knots (24.59 km/h; 15.28 mph) from 2,755 indicated horsepower (2,054 kW).