 SMS Custoza
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| Class overview | |
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| Preceded by | SMS Lissa |
| Succeeded by | SMS Erzherzog Albrecht |
| History | |
 Austria-Hungary | |
| Name | Custoza |
| Namesake | Battle of Custoza |
| Builder | Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino |
| Laid down | 17 November 1869 |
| Launched | 20 August 1872 |
| Commissioned | February 1875 |
| Fate | Ceded to Italy, 1920, broken up |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Casemate ship |
| Displacement | 7,609 to 7,730.99 long tons (7,731.10 to 7,855.05 t) |
| Length | |
| Beam | 17.7 m (58 ft 1 in) |
| Draft | 7.9 m (25 ft 11 in) |
| Installed power | 4,158 ihp (3,101 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 13.75 knots (25.47 km/h; 15.82 mph) |
| Crew | 548–567 |
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SMS Custoza was an ironclad warship built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the 1870s, the only member of her class. She was the first Austro-Hungarian ironclad to be built after the navy studied the results of the Battle of Lissa of 1866; she was also the first iron-hulled capital ship to be built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy. She was laid down in November 1869, launched in August 1872, and completed in February 1875. Her career was fairly limited, in part due to reduced naval budgets in the 1870s that also delayed her completion. Custoza was somewhat more active in the 1880s, taking part in an international naval demonstration against the Ottoman Empire in 1880, being modernized in 1882, and a trip to Spain for the Barcelona Universal Exposition in 1888. The ship became a training ship in 1902, was converted into a barracks ship in 1914, and after World War I, was awarded as a war prize to Italy. Custoza was immediately broken up.