 A painting showing SMS Wien and the other ships of the Monarch class on maneuvers
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| History | |
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 Austro-Hungarian Empire | |
| Name | SMS Monarch |
| Ordered | May 1892 |
| Builder | Pola Naval Arsenal |
| Laid down | 31 July 1893 |
| Launched | 9 May 1895 |
| Sponsored by | Archduchess Maria Theresa |
| Commissioned | 11 May 1898 |
| Decommissioned | 14 March 1918 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1921 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Monarch-class coastal defense ship |
| Displacement | 5,785 tonnes (5,694 long tons) (full load) |
| Length | 99.22 m (325 ft 6 in) |
| Beam | 17 m (55 ft 9 in) |
| Draught | 6.4 m (21 ft 0 in) |
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| Speed | 17.5 knots (32.4 km/h; 20.1 mph) |
| Range | 3,500 nmi (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) @ 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) |
| Complement | 26 officers and 397 enlisted men |
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SMS Monarch [a] ("His Majesty's Ship Monarch") was the lead ship of the Monarch-class coastal defense ship built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the 1890s. After their commissioning, Monarch and the two other Monarch-class ships made several training cruises in the Mediterranean Sea in the early 1900s. Monarch and her sisters formed the 1st Capital Ship Division of the Austro-Hungarian Navy until they were replaced by the newly commissioned Habsburg-class pre-dreadnought battleships at the turn of the century. In 1906 the three Monarchs were placed in reserve and only recommissioned during the annual summer training exercises. After the start of World War I, Budapest was recommissioned and assigned to 5th Division together with her sisters.
The division was sent to Cattaro in August 1914 to attack Montenegrin and French artillery that was bombarding the port, and Monarch remained there for the rest of the war. The ship was decommissioned in early 1918 and became an accommodation ship. She was awarded to Great Britain by the Paris Peace Conference in 1920. The British sold her for scrap and she was broken up in Italy beginning in 1921.
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