&sq=&lang=&file=File:Novara-expedition-report-book-cover-1865.jpg) Image of frigate Novara from expedition report Voyage of the Austrian Frigate Novara around the Earth (1861–1876), published in 21 volumes written over 15 years.
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| History | |
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 Austria-Hungary | |
| Name | SMS Novara |
| Namesake | Battle of Novara (1849) |
| Builder | Venetian Arsenal, Venice |
| Laid down | 20 September 1843 |
| Launched | 4 November 1850 |
| Completed | June 1851 |
| Commissioned | (pre-1862) Full-rigged frigate |
| Decommissioned | Hulked, 22 August 1876 |
| Reclassified | Gunnery training ship, 22 June 1881 |
| Stricken | 22 October 1898 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1899 |
| General characteristics as reconstructed in 1862 | |
| Type | Screw frigate |
| Displacement | 2,615 t (2,574 long tons) |
| Length | 76.79 m (251 ft 11 in) |
| Beam | 14.32 m (47 ft 0 in) |
| Draft | 5.8 m (19 ft 0 in) |
| Installed power | 1,200 ihp (890 kW) |
| Propulsion | 1 shaft, 1 steam engine |
| Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Range | 3,300 nmi (6,100 km; 3,800 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 550 |
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SMS Novara was a sail frigate of the Austro-Hungarian Navy most noted for sailing the globe for the Novara Expedition of 1857–1859 and, later for carrying Archduke Maximilian and wife Carlota to Veracruz in May 1864 to reign as Emperor and Empress of Mexico.