&sq=&lang=&file=File:SMS_Prinz_Eugen.jpg) Photo of Prinz Eugen before 1867
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| History | |
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 Austrian Empire | |
| Name | Prinz Eugen |
| Namesake | Prince Eugene of Savoy |
| Builder | Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino |
| Laid down | October 1861 |
| Launched | 14 June 1862 |
| Commissioned | March 1863 |
| Fate | Scrapped, November 1873 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Kaiser Max class |
| Displacement | 3,588 long tons (3,646 t) |
| Length | 70.78 m (232 ft 3 in) pp |
| Beam | 10 m (32 ft 10 in) |
| Draft | 6.32 m (20 ft 9 in) |
| Installed power | 1,926 indicated horsepower (1,436 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 11.4 knots (21.1 km/h; 13.1 mph) |
| Range | 1,200 nautical miles (2,200 km; 1,400 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Crew | 386 |
| Armament |
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| Armor | Belt: 110 mm (4.3 in) |
SMS Prinz Eugen was the second member of the Kaiser Max class built for the Austrian Navy in the 1860s. Her keel was laid in October 1861 at the Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino shipyard; she was launched in June 1862, and was completed in March 1863. She carried her main battery—composed of sixteen 48-pounder guns and fifteen 24-pounders—in a traditional broadside arrangement, protected by an armored belt that was 110 mm (4.3 in) thick.
Prinz Eugen saw action at the Battle of Lissa in July 1866. There she engaged the Italian ironclad fleet; she did not inflict any serious damage, though she emerged from the battle similarly unscathed. After the war, Prinz Eugen was modernized slightly in 1867 to correct her poor seakeeping and improve her armament, but she was nevertheless rapidly outpaced by naval developments in the 1860s and 1870s. Obsolescent by 1873, Prinz Eugen was officially "rebuilt", though in actuality she was broken up for scrap, with only her armor plate, parts of her machinery, and other miscellaneous parts being reused in the new Prinz Eugen.