SMS Kaiserin Augusta
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SMS Kaiserin Augusta was a unique protected cruiser, built for the German Kaiserliche Marine in the early 1890s. Named for Empress Augusta, who died in January 1890, she was laid down in 1890, launche
SMS Kaiserin Augusta in 1893
SMS Prinzess Wilhelm of the Irene class, which provided the basis for the initial version of the Kaiserin Augusta design
Kaiserin Augusta leaving New York, from an 1895 lithograph
Kaiserin Augusta with Seeadler in New York City, 1893
Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, was Queen of Prussia and the first German Empress as the wife of William I, German Emperor.
SMS Kaiserin Augusta
…SMS Kaiserin Augusta was a unique protected cruiser, built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) in the early 1890s. Named for Empress Augusta, who died in January 1890, she was laid down in 1890, launched in January 1892, and completed in November of that year. Owing to budgetary restrictions…
Portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1853.
Augusta's mother Maria Pavlovna, a granddaughter of Catherine the Great, by Vladimir Borovikovsky, 1804.
Augusta's father Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach from 1828 to 1853, by Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, 1804.
Princess Augusta, by Carl Joseph Begas, 1838. Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Weimar.