&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:SMS_Prinz_Eugen_NH_87045-B.jpg) Prinz Eugen in her original configuration
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| History | |
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 Austria-Hungary | |
| Name | Prinz Eugen |
| Namesake | Prince Eugene of Savoy |
| Builder | Pola Naval Arsenal |
| Laid down | October 1874 |
| Launched | 7 September 1877 |
| Commissioned | November 1878 |
| Stricken | 30 December 1912 |
| Fate | Confiscated by Italy, 1919, fate unknown |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Kaiser Max class |
| Displacement | 3,548 long tons (3,605 t) |
| Length | |
| Beam | 15.25 m (50 ft) |
| Draft | 6.15 m (20 ft 2 in) |
| Installed power | 2,755 ihp (2,054 kW) |
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| Speed | 13.28 knots (24.59 km/h; 15.28 mph) |
| Crew | 400 |
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| Armor | |
SMS Prinz Eugen was an ironclad warship built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the 1870s, the third and final member of the Kaiser Max class. The ship was supposedly the same vessel that had been laid down in 1861, and had simply been reconstructed. In reality, 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 Prinz Eugen, which was laid down in October 1874, launched in September 1877, and commissioned in November 1878. The ship spent significant periods out of service, in part due to slender naval budgets that prevented much active use. In 1880, she took part in an international naval demonstration against the Ottoman Empire, and she went to Spain in 1888 for the Barcelona Universal Exposition. Prinz Eugen was stricken in 1904 and converted into a repair ship in 1906–1909. She was renamed Vulkan and served in this capacity through World War I; after the war, she was seized by Italy but was awarded to Yugoslavia in the postwar peace negotiations. Italy refused to hand the ship over, however, and her ultimate fate is unknown.