A Fleet in Being

The Austro-Hungarian Navy in WWI

Author: Russell Phillips
Length: 74 page(s)
Written: Dec 2011
Sales Rank: 12 XinXii Sales Rank

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Category: Hobbies » Military | Work: Textbook
Keywords: Austria-Hungary, World War I, World War 1, WWI, WW1, battleship, warship, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Navy, Naval, Austro-Hungarian Navy

A comprehensive listing of the ships of the Austro-Hungarian navy in WWI

The Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine -- The Austro-Hungarian Navy -- was in at the beginning of World War I when Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie lay in state abord its flagship, and at the end when it dissolved along with the empire that commanded it. During the war, this small but powerful "fleet in being" forced the Allies to maintain a blockade of the Otranto Straits. German and Austro-Hungarian u-boats ran riot elsewhere in the Mediterranean even though the capital ships almost never left port.

Illustrated with thirty photographs and drawings, this book provides a comprehensive and detailed listing of the ships that made up the KuK Kriegsmarine, its operations, and the unique problems this unusual fleet faced, from contentious duelling parliaments to ships built by landlocked Hungary.

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Russell Phillips
Member since: Sep 2011
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I write books and articles about military technology and history. My articles have been published in Miniature Wargames, Wargames Illustrated and the Society of Twentieth Century Wargamers Journal.

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