SMS Budapest information

SMS *Budapest*
	A model of Budapest at the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
History
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Name	SMS Budapest
Namesake	Budapest, Hungary
Ordered	May 1892
Builder	Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino, Trieste
Laid down	16 February 1893
Launched	27 April 1896
Sponsored by	Countess Marie Széchényí-Andrássy
Commissioned	12 May 1898
Decommissioned	11 March 1918
Fate	Scrapped, 1921
General characteristics
Class and type	Monarch-class coastal defense ship
Displacement	5,785 tonnes (5,694 long tons) (full load)
Length	99.22 m (325 ft 6 in)
Beam	17 m (55 ft 9 in)
Draught	6.4 m (21 ft 0 in)
Installed power	9,100 ihp (6,800 kW); 16 × Belleville boilers;
Propulsion	2 × Shafts; 2 × Vertical triple-expansion steam engines;
Speed	17.8 knots (33.0 km/h; 20.5 mph)
Range	3,500 nmi (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) @ 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph)
Complement	26 officers and 397 enlisted men
Armament	2 × 2 - 240 mm (9.4 in) Krupp guns; 6 × 1 - 150 mm (5.9 in) Škoda guns; 1 × 7 cm (2.8 in) anti-aircraft gun; 10 × 1 - 47 mm (1.9 in) Škoda guns; 4 × 1 - 47 mm (1.9 in) Hotchkiss guns; 2 × 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes;
Armour	Waterline belt: 120–270 mm (4.7–10.6 in); Deck: 40 mm (1.6 in); Gun turrets: 250 mm (9.8 in); Casemate: 80 mm (3.1 in); Conning tower: 220 mm (8.7 in);

SMS Budapest ^[a] ("His Majesty's Ship Budapest") was a Monarch-class coastal defense ship built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the 1890s. After their commissioning, Budapest and the two other Monarch-class ships made several training cruises in the Mediterranean Sea in the early 1900s. Budapest and her sisters formed the 1st Capital Ship Division of the Austro-Hungarian Navy until they were replaced by the newly commissioned Habsburg-class pre-dreadnought battleships at the turn of the century. In 1906 the three Monarchs were placed in reserve and only recommissioned during the annual summer training exercises. After the start of World War I, Budapest was recommissioned and assigned to 5th Division together with her sisters.

The division was sent to Cattaro in August 1914 to attack Montenegrin and French artillery that was bombarding the port, and they remained there until mid-1917. Budapest and her sister Wien were sent to Trieste in August and bombarded Italian fortifications in the Gulf of Trieste. The ship was briefly decommissioned in early 1918 and became an accommodation ship, but she was fitted with a large siege howitzer for shore bombardment shortly afterwards and recommissioned. A shortage of ammunition caused the gun to be removed before it could be used, and Budapest reverted to her previous role. The ship was awarded to Great Britain by the Paris Peace Conference in 1920. The British sold her for scrap, and she was broken up in Italy beginning in 1921.
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History
A model of Budapest at the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Name	SMS Budapest
Namesake	Budapest, Hungary
Ordered	May 1892
Builder	Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino, Trieste
Laid down	16 February 1893
Launched	27 April 1896
Sponsored by	Countess Marie Széchényí-Andrássy
Commissioned	12 May 1898
Decommissioned	11 March 1918
Fate	Scrapped, 1921
General characteristics
Class and type	Monarch-class coastal defense ship
Displacement	5,785 tonnes (5,694 long tons) (full load)
Length	99.22 m (325 ft 6 in)
Beam	17 m (55 ft 9 in)
Draught	6.4 m (21 ft 0 in)
Installed power	9,100 ihp (6,800 kW) 16 × Belleville boilers
Propulsion	2 × Shafts 2 × Vertical triple-expansion steam engines
Speed	17.8 knots (33.0 km/h; 20.5 mph)
Range	3,500 nmi (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) @ 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph)
Complement	26 officers and 397 enlisted men
Armament	2 × 2 - 240 mm (9.4 in) Krupp guns 6 × 1 - 150 mm (5.9 in) Škoda guns 1 × 7 cm (2.8 in) anti-aircraft gun 10 × 1 - 47 mm (1.9 in) Škoda guns 4 × 1 - 47 mm (1.9 in) Hotchkiss guns 2 × 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes
Armour	Waterline belt: 120–270 mm (4.7–10.6 in) Deck: 40 mm (1.6 in) Gun turrets: 250 mm (9.8 in) Casemate: 80 mm (3.1 in) Conning tower: 220 mm (8.7 in)