SMS Sankt Georg
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SMS Sankt Georg was the third and final armored cruiser of the Austro-Hungarian Navy. She was built at the Pola Arsenal; her keel was laid in March 1901, she was launched in December 1903, and complet
SMS St.GEORG
The armored cruiser Kaiser Karl VI
Sankt Georg underway
The Battle of the Strait of Otranto of 1917 was the result of an Austro-Hungarian raid during the Adriatic Campaign of World War I on the Otranto Barrage, an Allied naval blockade of the Strait of Otr
SMS Sankt Georg
…the latter's declaration of war on Austria-Hungary. In 1917, she supported the Austro-Hungarian forces that raided the Otranto Barrage; in the ensuing Battle of the Strait of Otranto, Sankt Georg's arrival on the scene was sufficient to force the combined British, French and Italian forces to break off the engagement and retreat…
SMS Novara in action
British drifters steaming from their base in the Adriatic Sea to the Otranto Barrage.
Monument for the "heroes of the Battle of Otranto" in Prevlaka, now in Croatia.