SMS Budapest
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SMS Budapest was a Monarch-class coastal defense ship built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the 1890s. After their commissioning, Budapest and the two other Monarch-class ships made several training cruises in the Mediterranean Sea in the early 1900s. Budapest and her sisters formed the 1st Capital Ship Division of the Austro-Hungarian Navy until they were replaced by the newly commissioned Habsburg-class pre-dreadnought battleships at the turn of the century. In 1906 the three Monarchs were placed in reserve and only recommissioned during the annual summer training exercises. After the start of World War I, Budapest was recommissioned and assigned to 5th Division together with her sisters.
A model of Budapest at the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
Right elevation and plan of the Monarch class; the shaded area is armored.
Alexander Kircher
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Alexander Kircher was an Austrian-German marine and landscape painter and illustrator. Many of his paintings can be seen in museums in Germany, Austria, Croatia, and Slovenia while others are held by private owners in those same countries, as well as the United States of America, Great Britain, Scandinavia, and Greece.
The house at 22 Schlossallee in Moritzburg, where Kircher and his family lived from 1907 to 1921
A Habsburg-class battleship on the slipway at the Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino shipyard in 1900–02
A fully rigged ship in front of the Statue of Liberty in New York Bay, 1897