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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)[1]
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.

• The Genesis of the Austrian Navy - A Chronology
• Antique Photography & Postcards of Austro-Hungarian army 1866-1918 (in English)