The Ersatz Monarch class was a class of four dreadnought battleships which were intended to be built between 1914 and 1919 for the Austro-Hungarian Navy. Design work on a class of battleships to succe
Austro-Hungarian fleet maneuvers in 1914
The Monarch-class coastal defense ship Wien in 1898
The Tegetthoff-class battleship Viribus Unitis. The Ersatz Monarch-class battleships would have been essentially an enlarged version of their predecessors
The assembly of the first gun turret for Viribus Unitis at the Škoda Works in Plzeň. The assembled guns for the Ersatz Monarch class were only slightly larger
The Monarch class was a class of three coastal defense ships built by Austria-Hungary at the end of the 19th century. The Monarchs were the first ships of their type to utilize turrets. The class comp
Ersatz Monarch-class battleship
…Austro-Hungarian Navy (kaiserliche und königliche Kriegsmarine). Design work on a class of battleships to succeed the Tegetthoff class and replace the aging Monarch class began in 1911. After going through several different design proposals, Anton Haus, Commander-in-Chief of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, secured passage of…
A 1:50 scale model of the battleship Budapest