User:Hammersfan/Austrian fleet organisation in 1914

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The entire operational fleet was called the Imperial and Royal Squadron (K.u.k. Eskadre). The Eskadre was divided into a Ship-of-the-Line Fleet, a Cruiser Flotilla and a Submarine Flotilla, plus technically outdated warships for harbour defence and various support ships.

Imperial and Royal Squadron

Ship-of-the-Line Fleet

Cruiser Flotilla The Cruiser Flotilla included all the lighter and light surface forces of the Navy - armored cruisers, light cruisers, destroyers and torpedo boats under the command of Vice-Admiral Paul Fiedler.

Local Defence Forces

Submarine Flotilla Submarine Station, Pola (subordinated to the Harbour Admiralty in peacetime, with the outbreak of WWI the station expanded into the Submarine Flotilla and transferred to the island of Brioni where the Imperial and Royal Base for Submarines was built)

Danube Flotilla
In addition to the seagoing force stationed in the Adriatic, the navy also had units stationed for operations on the River Danube and its tributaries.

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Szent István was commissioned in December 1915
  2. ^ Viribis Unitis was the fleet flagship
  3. ^ The 5th Heavy Division fell under the Ship-of-the-Line Fleet only administratively, as its ships were obsolete and could not take part in a naval engagement next to their more modern counterparts. The ships of the division were used for harbour guard duty
  4. ^ The 2nd Cruiser Division was nominally under the Cruiser Flotilla, but its outdated cruisers were used as harbour guard duty
  5. ^ Kaiserin Elisabeth was the station ship of the East Asia station, and was deployed to Tsingtao. The ship was scuttled in November 1914
  6. ^ Kaiserin und Königin Maria Theresia was nominally part of the 1st Cruiser Division
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