SMS Salamander (1861)
Salamander before her 1867 refit | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Austrian 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 |
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| Speed | 10.5 knots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph) |
| Complement | 346 |
| Armament |
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| 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.