At least three ships of the Prussian Navy (and later Imperial German Navy) or Austro-Hungarian Navy had been named SMS Schwalbe:
SMS Zrínyi was a Radetzky-class semi-dreadnought battleship (Schlachtschiff) of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, named for the Zrinski, a Croatian-Hungarian noble family. Zrínyi and her sisters, Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand and Radetzky, were the last pre-dreadnoughts built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy.
The Austro-Hungarian Navy or Imperial and Royal War Navy was the naval force of Austria-Hungary. Ships of the Austro-Hungarian Navy were designated SMS, for Seiner Majestät Schiff. The k.u.k. Kriegsmarine came into being after the formation of Austria-Hungary in 1867, and ceased to exist in 1918 upon the Empire's defeat and subsequent collapse at the end of World War I.
SMS Kaiser has been the name of two ships of the German Imperial Navy:
Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven was a German shipbuilding company in Wilhelmshaven, founded in 1871 and closed in 1918. Together with Kaiserliche Werft Danzig and Kaiserliche Werft Kiel it was one of three shipyards which solely produced warships for the Preußische Marine and the following German Kaiserliche Marine. With the end of World War I all three imperial shipyards were closed, but the Wilhelmshaven shipyard was reopened in 1919, first as Reichsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven, and after 1935 named Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven.
Two ships of the Austro-Hungarian Navy have been named SMS Tegetthoff after the Austrian admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff:
Schwalbe may refer to:
Three ships of the Austrian and later Austro-Hungarian Navy have been named SMS Prinz Eugen in honor of Prince Eugene of Savoy
In addition to several other ships, two ships of the Imperial German Navy and one ship of the Austro-Hungarian Navy have been named SMS Nautilus, after the Greek word for a sailor.
Three ships of the German and Austro-Hungarian navies have been named SMS Basilisk:
Three ships of the Imperial German Navy and one of the Austro-Hungarian Navy have been named SMS Möwe:
Several ships of the Prussian and Austrian/Austro-Hungarian Navies have been named SMS Drache (Dragon)
Several ships of the German and Austro-Hungarian Navies have been named SMS Greif
At least three ships in the Prussian Navy or Austro-Hungarian Navy were named SMS Natter:
There were three ships in the Prussian Navy and later German Imperial Navy or Austro-Hungarian Navy named SMS Habicht:
Several ships in the Prussian Navy and later German Imperial Navy and the Austro-Hungarian Navy have been named SMS Tiger:
At least two ships of the Imperial German Navy or Austro-Hungarian Navy have been named SMS Viper:
At least three ships of the Prussian Navy or Austro-Hungarian Navy had been named SMS Sperber: