SMS Salamander (1861)

Salamander before her 1867 refit
History
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Name	SMS Salamander
Namesake	Salamander
Builder	Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino, Trieste
Laid down	February 1861
Launched	22 August 1861
Completed	May 1862
Reclassified	Mine hulk
Stricken	18 March 1883
Fate	Scrapped, 1895–1896
General characteristics (as built)
Type	Drache-class armored frigate
Displacement	3,110 long tons (3,160 t)
Length	70.1 m (230 ft)
Beam	13.94 m (45 ft 9 in)
Draft	6.8 m (22 ft 4 in)
Installed power	2,060 ihp (1,540 kW)
Propulsion	1 × steam engine 1 × screw propeller
Speed	10.5 knots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph)
Complement	346
Armament	1862: 10 × 48-pounder smoothbore guns 18 × 24-pounder rifled, muzzle-loading guns 1867: 10 × RML 7-inch (178 mm) guns 2 × RML 2-inch (51 mm) guns
Armor	Waterline belt: 115 mm (4.5 in)

SMS Salamander was a Drache-class armored frigate built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the 1860s; she was laid down in February 1861, launched in August that year, and completed in May 1862, six months before her sister Drache. She was a broadside ironclad, mounting a battery of twenty-eight guns in gun ports along the length the hull. During the Second Schleswig War in 1864, Salamander remained in the Adriatic to protect Austria from a possible Danish attack that did not materialize. Two years later, during the Seven Weeks' War, she participated in the Austrian victory over a superior Italian fleet in the Battle of Lissa in July 1866. Immediately after the war, she was modernized with a battery of more powerful guns. Little used thereafter owing to reduced naval budgets, she was stricken from the Navy List in 1883 and hulked for use as a mine storage ship before being broken up in 1895–1896.