Three ships of the Austrian and Austro-Hungarian Navy have been named SMS Radetzky:
SMS Friedrich der Grosse may refer to:
The Battle of Heligoland was fought on 9 May 1864, during the Second Schleswig War, between a Danish squadron led by Commodore Edouard Suenson and a joint Austro-Prussian squadron commanded by the Austrian Commodore Wilhelm von Tegetthoff. The action came about as a result of the Danish blockade of German ports in the North Sea; the Austrians had sent two steam frigates, SMS Schwarzenberg and Radetzky, to reinforce the small Prussian Navy to help break the blockade. After arriving in the North Sea, Tegetthoff joined a Prussian aviso and a pair of gunboats. To oppose him, Suenson had available the steam frigates Niels Juel and Jylland and the corvette Hejmdal.
The Battle of Lissa took place on 20 July 1866 in the Adriatic Sea near the Dalmatian island of Vis and was a significant victory for an Austrian Empire force over a numerically superior Italian force. It was the first major sea battle between ironclads and one of the last to involve deliberate ramming. The Italian navy fired roughly 1450 shots during the engagement, but failed to sink any Austrian ship while losing two ironclads.
SMS Novara was a sail frigate of the Austro-Hungarian Navy most noted for sailing the globe for the Novara Expedition of 1857–1859 and, later for carrying Archduke Maximilian and wife Carlota to Veracruz in May 1864 to become Emperor and Empress of Mexico.
Heinrich Wawra Ritter von Fernsee, born Jindřich Blažej Vávra, was a Czech-Austrian ship surgeon, botanist and explorer.
Emden may refer to one of the following German naval ships that were named after the town of Emden on the Ems River:
Radetzky may refer to:
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SMS Radetzky was the first of the three Radetzky-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy. She was named for the 19th century Austrian Field Marshal Joseph Radetzky von Radetz. Radetzky and her sisters, Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand and Zrínyi, were the last pre-dreadnoughts built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy—they were followed by the larger and significantly more powerful Tegetthoff-class dreadnoughts.
SMS Deutschland may refer to one of the following ships in the German Empire's Kaiserliche Marine:
Two ships of the Imperial German Navy, and one of the Prussian Navy, have borne the name SMS Vineta, named after the mythic city of Vineta :
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Several naval ships of Germany were named Cöln or Köln after the city of Cologne, Germany :
Several naval ships of Germany were named Karlsruhe after the city of Karlsruhe, Germany:
Several naval ships of Germany were named Sachsen after the federal state of Saxony:
The Austro-Hungarian Navy operated a pair of ironclad warships named SMS Don Juan d'Austria:
Three cruising vessels of the Prussian Navy and later Imperial German Navy have been named SMS Arcona
SMS Radetzky was a screw frigate in the Austro-Hungarian Navy built by Money, Wigram & Sons of London. The ship, named after nobleman and field marshal Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, was launched in 1854. She participated in the Battle of Heligoland during the Second Schleswig War in 1864 and the Battle of Lissa during the Austro-Prussian War in 1866, the former sometimes cited as the 'last clash of wooden warships.'
A number of vessels of the German Navy have borne the name Bayern, after Bavaria.