Summary
Zvonimir Freivogel: Austro-Hungarian destroyers in the First World War
During the First World War, Austro-Hungarian destroyers were at sea almost every day together with light cruisers and torpedo boats and performed various tasks, such as hunting submarines, searching for broken mines, laying mines or attacking enemy shipping and ships of the Otranto Barrage. They often took part in the support of Austro-Hungarian seaplanes, waiting for their return from attacks on targets on the opposing coast and after a forced landing towing them back to their stronghold or rescuing their crews.
The richly illustrated book shows all Austro-Hungarian destroyers - also known as "torpedo vessels" - from the very beginnings, right up to the last unrealized projects. The best and most successful destroyers of the Tátra and Replacement for Triglav classes were equal to the destroyers of other navies operating in the Adriatic, such as the French, Italian and British, and they coped well with stronger opposing ships. Together with them, older destroyers of the Huszár class, but even old proto-destroyers, built at the end of the 19th century, operated.
In addition to technical descriptions, construction tables and technical data, the book describes the activities of all imperial and royal destroyers of the Austro-Hungarian Navy from their entry into service until their final decommissioning.
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