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Battleships of Austria-Hungary

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Good Topic Nom Well it's taken us (User:Buggie111 and I) the better part of this year but we did it. We finished the first entire set of one nations's Batleships (Germany and Russia as well as the UK have already gotten the Battlecruisers done) This topic covers all 13 battleships, 5 classes (including an uncompleted class) and the lead list for a total of 19 articles. If this GTC passes, this will be a major mile-mark in OTM's history and I hope that this nom will not be the last of it's kind. Thank you :)--White Shadows Your guess is as good as mine 10:27, 11 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Addendum With outside support from User:Parsecboy and User:Sturmvogel 66. 13:56, 11 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I thought you ment that for only the list. Ok, problem solved. I've got Budapest at DYK, and Monarch is next on my lineup. Buggie111 (talk) 17:57, 11 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Monarch class ships are generally considered to be coastal defense ships, not true battleships. For instance, Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905 calls them "coast defense ships" and states that "they were too small to be efficient, well-balanced battleships, and were officially designed as Coast Defense Ships." There is a good deal of haze, mainly because of the fluidity of the term "battleship" - many coastal defense ships were called 2nd, 3rd, or even 4th class battleships, coastal battleships, etc. Parsecboy (talk) 19:05, 11 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, Parsec ad Strum get credit in this as well for their parts. Sokol's The Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Navy calls them Coastal defense ships as well and states that they were no where near the size of battleships of contemporary navies of the time.--White Shadows Your guess is as good as mine 21:36, 11 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I am not familiar with what is the typical size of ship categories; but you are saying that at the end of the 19th century all the battleships were well above 6k tonnes? Nergaal (talk) 03:44, 12 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Yes I am. Most true BBs were well over 6k tonnes. Just look at the Habsburg-class. They are truely coastal defens ships and I've never seen them mentioned as battleships other than in name anywhere in any text.--White Shadows Your guess is as good as mine 10:27, 12 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support, provided that the Monarch-class CD ships aren't included. One of these days I'll remember to rename the damn things.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 03:02, 12 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support without the Monarchs, though there's another GT waiting for someone there. Courcelles 06:40, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

  • I prefer subtopics personally, it would look like this for this topic:
That would be "List of Battleship classes of Austria-Hungary" then....--White Shadows Your guess is as good as mine 10:28, 20 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
19 articles isn't all that unwieldy, in my opinion anyway. Parsecboy (talk) 03:32, 22 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]