Monarch (Monarch Class)


Monarch : Click for full picture


Laid down 31st July 1893
Launched 9th May 1895
Completed N/A
Commissioned 11th May 1898
Fate Scrapped:
1921
Builders Seerarsenal, Pola
Austria-Hungary
Complement 423
Dimensions
Displacement 5500 tons std
5800 tons max
Dimensions 325' 6" x 55' 8"
Draught 19' 7"
Armament
Main guns 4 x 9.44"/40 Krupps (2 x 2)
Secondary guns 6 x 5.9"/40 Skoda (6 x 1)
Torpedo tubes 2 x 17.7"
Other weapons 10 x 47mm/44 Skoda
4 x 47mm/33 Hotchkiss
2 x 70mm/15 Uchatius field guns
Countermeasures None
Armour Belt: 8.6" - 10.6"
Turrets: 9.8"
Deck: 1.5"
Aircraft Facilities
Aircraft None
Flightdeck None
Hangar None
Catapults None
Arrestor system None
Aviation fuel None
Electronics Fit
Radar None
Sonar None
ECM None
Other N/A
Machinery
Engines 5 x boilers
3 x vertical triple expansion
Power output 8500ihp
Speed 17kts
Shafts 3
Range 2200NM @ 12kts
Fuel 500 tons coal

Monarchs crew was involved in a mutiny at Cattaro in February 1918. From April 1918 she was used as an accomodation ship for submarine crews. In 1920 she was handed over to Britain as reparations, and scrapped in Italy in 1921.

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