Lissa sometime before 1875
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Class overview | |
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Preceded by | Erzherzog Ferdinand Max class |
Succeeded by | SMS Custoza |
History | |
Austria-Hungary | |
Name | Lissa |
Namesake | Battle of Lissa |
Laid down | 27 June 1867 |
Launched | 25 February 1869 |
Commissioned | May 1871 |
Stricken | 13 November 1892 |
Fate | Scrapped, 1893–1895 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Casemate ship |
Displacement | 7,086 long tons (7,200 t) |
Length | 89.38 m (293 ft 3 in) oa |
Beam | 17.32 m (56 ft 10 in) |
Draft | 8.5 m (27 ft 11 in) |
Installed power | 3,619 indicated horsepower (2,699 kW) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 12.83 knots (23.76 km/h; 14.76 mph) |
Crew | 620 |
Armament |
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Armor |
SMS Lissa, named for the Battle of Lissa, was a unique ironclad warship built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the 1860s and 1870s, the only member of her class. She was the first casemate ship built for Austria-Hungary, she was armed with a main battery of twelve 9-inch (229 mm) guns in a central armored casemate, unlike the earlier broadside ironclads. Construction of the ship lasted from June 1867 to May 1871, and was delayed by budgetary shortfalls; the lack of funding also plagued the ship during her career, preventing her from taking an active role in the fleet. She spent the majority of her time in service laid up in Pola, apart from a lengthy reconstruction in 1880–1881. Lissa was ultimately stricken from the fleet in 1892 and broken up for scrap starting the following year.