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Radetzky

Radetzky

Sunk

Austrian Navy

TypeFrigate
WarsSecond Schleswig War, Third Italian War of Independence
Main guns6 × 60-pounder Paixhans guns

Screw frigate. Damaged at Heligoland; fought again at Lissa in 1866.

The Austrian Frigate Radetzky, lately blown up at Lissa. Illustration for The Illustrated London News, 13 March 1869. Read the ILN The ILN reported: THE AUSTRIAN FRIGATE RADETZKY. The terrible disaster which happened on the, 20th ult. to the Austrian frigate Radetzky, by the blowing up of the powder Photo: Edwin Weedon, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

  • 6 × 60-pounder Paixhans guns
  • 40 × 30-pounder muzzleloading guns
  • 4 × 24-pounder breechloading guns
BuilderMoney Wigram & Sons, Northam
Laid down1852
Launched13 April 1854
Displacement2,234 long tons (2,270 t) (full load)
Length70.62 m (231 ft 8 in) length overall
Speed9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph)
Complement354

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

13 April 1854

9 May 1864 · Second Schleswig War

20 July 1866 · Third Italian War of Independence

Fate

Sunk

Exploded and sank on February 20, 1869