SMS Don Juan d'Austria (1875)

Don Juan d'Austria in her original configuration
History
Austria-Hungary
Name	Don Juan d'Austria
Namesake	John of Austria
Builder	Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino
Laid down	14 February 1874
Launched	25 October 1875
Commissioned	26 June 1876
Stricken	29 June 1904
Fate	Sank, 1919
General characteristics
Class and type	Kaiser Max class
Displacement	3,548 long tons (3,605 t)
Length	75.87 m (248 ft 11 in) o/a 73.23 m (240 ft 3 in) lwl
Beam	15.25 m (50 ft)
Draft	6.15 m (20 ft 2 in)
Installed power	2,755 ihp (2,054 kW)
Propulsion	1 × marine steam engine 1 × screw propeller
Speed	13.28 knots (24.59 km/h; 15.28 mph)
Crew	400
Armament	8 × 21 cm (8.3 in) guns 4 × 9 cm (3.5 in) guns 2 × 7 cm (2.8 in) guns 6 × 47 mm (1.9 in) QF guns 3 × 47 mm (1.9 in) Hotchkiss revolver cannon 2 × 25 mm (0.98 in) guns 4 × 35 cm (13.8 in) torpedo tubes
Armor	Belt: 203 mm (8 in) Casemate: 125 mm (4.9 in)

SMS Don Juan d'Austria was an ironclad warship built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the 1870s, the second of the three ships of the Kaiser Max class. The ship was purportedly the same vessel that had been laid down in 1861, and had simply been reconstructed. This was a fiction, however; the head of the Austro-Hungarian Navy could not secure funding for new ships, but reconstruction projects were uncontroversial, so he "rebuilt" the three earlier Kaiser Max-class ironclads. Only the engines and parts of the armor plate were reused in the new Don Juan d'Austria, which was laid down in February 1874, launched in December 1875, and commissioned in October 1876. The ship's career was fairly limited, in part due to slender naval budgets that prevented much active use. She made foreign visits and took part in limited training exercises in the 1880s and 1890s. Long since obsolete, Don Juan d'Austria was removed from service in 1904 and used as a barracks ship through World War I. After the war, she sank under unclear circumstances.