SMS Prinz Eugen
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| Career | 
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 16 January 1912 |
| Launched: | 30 November 1912 |
| Commissioned: | 8 July 1914 |
| Fate: | Sunk as gunnery target |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 20,000t standard |
| Length: | 152m |
| Beam: | 27.9m |
| Draught: | 8.7m |
| Propulsion: | 12 Yarrow fitted with 4 Parsons steam turbines, totalling 27000hp on 4 shafts |
| Speed: | 20.4kts |
| Range: | 4,200nm at 10kts |
| Complement: | 32 officers, 16 petty-officers, 993 men |
| Armament: |
12 x 12" (305 mm) guns in triple turrets 12 x 5.9" guns in single casemates 18 x 11 pdr guns in single mountings 4 x 21" torpedo tubes |
| Armor: | 11 inch belt, barbettes, turrets and conning tower; 1.4 inch deck |
Prinz Eugen was built at Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino yard, Trieste, and after the First World War she was handed over to the French navy, who used her as a gunnery target.
See also
- Tegetthoff class battleship
- List of ships of the Austro-Hungarian Navy
- List of ship launches in 1912
- List of ship commissionings in 1914
- List of shipwrecks in 1922
External links
- [Tegetthoff class drednoughts - the primary online source for this topic since 1998]
- [Austro-Hungarian Navy]
| Tegetthoff class |
| Viribus Unitis | Tegetthoff | Prinz Eugen | Szent István |
| List of ships of the Austro-Hungarian Navy |
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