Austro-Hungarian Navy

Austro-Hungarian Navy
Austro-Hungarian Navy
Kaiserliche und königliche Kriegsmarine (German); Császári és Királyi Haditengerészet (Hungarian)
	Coat of arms of the Austro-Hungarian Navy
Active	1786–1867 (as the Austrian Navy); 1867–1918 (as the Austro-Hungarian Navy)
Country	Austria (1786–1867); Austria-Hungary (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 craft; 29 coastal torpedo craft; 6 submarines
Part of	Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces
Garrison/HQ	The Naval Section of the War Ministry
Nickname(s)	"Trieste Navy" (18th century)
Motto(s)	Indivisibiliter ac Inseparabiliter (Latin: Indivisibly and Inseparably)
Engagements	As the Austrian Navy:; Napoleonic Wars; Austrian expedition against Morocco (1829); Oriental Crisis of 1840; First Italian War of Independence; Second Italian War of Independence; Second Schleswig War; Third War of Italian Independence; As the Austro-Hungarian Navy:; Boxer Rebellion; World War I;
Commanders
Holy Roman Emperor (1786–1804)	Joseph II (1786–1790); Leopold II (1790–1792); Francis II (1792–1804)
Emperor of Austria (1804–1867)	Francis I (1804–1835); Ferdinand I (1835–1848); Franz Joseph I (1848–1867)
Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary (1867–1918)	Franz Joseph I (1867–1916); Karl I (1916–1918)
Commander-in-Chief of the Navy (German: Oberkommandant der Marine)	Hans Birch Dahlerup [da] (February 1849–August 1851); Franz Graf Wimpffen (August 1851–September 1854); Archduke 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)
Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet (German: Flottenkommandant)	Anton Haus (July 1914–February 1917); Maximilian Njegovan (February 1917–February 1918); Miklós Horthy (February 1918–November 1918)
Chief of the Naval Section of the War Ministry (German: Chef der Marinesektion)	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)
Insignia
Naval ensign: 1786–1915

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.