Austro-Hungarian Navy

The **Austro-Hungarian Navy**, also known as the **k.u.k Kriegsmarine** (_Royal and Imperial Navy_) was the navy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1867 until the end of World War I.

After the end of the War, the Austro-Hungarians transferred their ships to the Royal Yugoslav Navy, so that the Allied Nations would not keep these ships.

## Other websites

- The Genesis of the Austrian Navy - A Chronology
- Antique Photography & Postcards of Austro-Hungarian army 1866-1918

## Infobox (military unit)

- **unit name**: Austro-Hungarian Navy
- **image**: Coat of arms of the Austro-Hungarian Navy.png
- **caption**: Coat of arms of the Austro-Hungarian Navy
- **dates**: 1786–1867 (as the Austrian Navy)
1867–1918 (as the Austro-Hungarian Navy)
- **country**: (1786–1867)
 (1867–1918)
- **type**: Navy
- **role**: Defence of Austria-Hungary's naval interests, its merchant marine, and its coastline
- **size**: 1914:
20,000 personnel
4 dreadnoughts
9 pre-dreadnoughts
3 coastal defense ships
3 armored cruisers
2 torpedo cruisers
5 protected cruisers
2 scout cruisers
18 destroyers
25 high seas Torpedo boat, torpedo craft
29 coastal torpedo craft
6 submarines
- **command structure**: Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces
- **garrison**: The Naval Section of the War Ministry
- **nickname**: "Trieste Navy" (18th century)
- **motto**: Indivisibiliter ac Inseparabiliter (Latin: _Indivisibly and Inseparably_)
- **commander1**: Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, Joseph II (1786–1790)
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, Leopold II (1790–1792)
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, Francis II (1792–1804)
- **commander1 label**: Holy Roman Emperor (1786–1804)
- **commander2**: Francis I (1804–1835)
Ferdinand I of Austria, Ferdinand I (1835–1848)
Franz Joseph I of Austria, Franz Joseph I (1848–1867)
- **commander2 label**: Emperor of Austria (1804–1867)
- **commander3**: Franz Joseph I (1867–1916)
Charles I of Austria, Karl I (1916–1918)
- **commander3 label**: Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary (1867–1918)
- **commander4**: (February 1849–August 1851)
Franz Graf Wimpffen (August 1851–September 1854)
Archduke Maximilian I of Mexico, Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria (September 1854–1861)
Ludwig von Fautz (1861–March 1865)
Wilhelm von Tegetthoff (March 1868–April 1871)
Friedrich von Pöck (April 1871–November 1883)
Maximilian Daublebsky von Sterneck (November 1883–December 1897)
Hermann von Spaun (December 1897–October 1904)
Rudolf Montecuccoli (October 1904–February 1913)
Anton Haus (February 1913–February 1917)
Maximilian Njegovan (April 1917–February 1918)
- **commander4 label**: Commander-in-Chief of the Navy (German: _Oberkommandant der Marine_)
- **commander5**: Anton Haus (July 1914–February 1917)
Maximilian Njegovan (February 1917–February 1918)
Miklós Horthy (February 1918–November 1918)
- **commander5 label**: Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet (German: _Flottenkommandant_)
- **commander6**: Ludwig von Fautz (March 1865–April 1868)
Wilhelm von Tegetthoff (March 1868–April 1871)
Friedrich von Pöck (October 1872–November 1883)
Maximilian Daublebsky von Sterneck (November 1883–December 1897)
Hermann von Spaun (December 1897–October 1904)
Rudolf Montecuccoli (October 1904–February 1913)
Anton Haus (February 1913–February 1917)
Karl Kailer von Kaltenfels (February 1917–April 1917)
Maximilian Njegovan (April 1917–February 1918)
Franz von Holub (February 1918–November 1918)
- **commander6 label**: Chief of the Naval Section of the War Ministry (German: _Chef der Marinesektion_)
- **identification symbol**:
- **identification symbol label**: Naval ensign: 1786–1915
- **identification symbol 2 label**: Naval ensign: 1915–1918
- **native name**: