Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna

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A senior Offizier tunic, likely a Flaggenoffiziere:




Closeup of medals & collar insignia:

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K.u.k. Admiral Rudolf Graf Montecuccoli (1843-1922) frock coat:






I think the Admiral was the pre war head of the K.u.k Marine.

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K.u.k Sailor's career rate badges. The workmanship in these badges is absolutely superb!



Close up of badge frame:


Close up of badge frame:

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K.u.k Sailor's career rate badges. The workmanship in these badges is absolutely superb!



Close up of badge frame:


Close up of badge frame:

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K.u.K Marine SM U-20 was sunk on 4 July 1918 whilst on patrol in the Gulf of Trieste. She was lost with all hands. Her wreck was located in the northern Adriatic Sea in summer of 1962 & she (or what was left of her) was successfully salvaged. U-20's Conning tower is on display in the Museum.

More information on U-20 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM_U-20_(Austria-Hungary)






A shot looking down at the interior of the conning tower:

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Couple shots of the U-20 salvage operation in 1962:

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Siebe Gorman Diving apparatus display (circa 1908):

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Early(19th century) Whitehead Torpedo:

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What a spectacular looking torpedo. And what stunning photo's, thanks for sharing. Never knew about any Austrian navy, with it currently being landlocked.
In an earlier post you complained about display glass reflection. A polarising filter might help to counter this, but judging from most of your images you seem to be doing just fine without it.

Rgds, Thomas.

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There were two very nice Ship Figureheads on display -


This one being the figurehead of SMS ZARA, a wood screw ship of the late
19th century:

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Figurehead of SMS HELGOLAND, a screw corvette built in Pola 1866-69.




& that it folks, thats all the time I had -- there is many many more fine displays in the museum - hopefully I may get back their on a future visit to Vienna some time in future & if I am able to do so I will take some more photos.

Bryan

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While this is all very interesting (and many thanks for showing us), do not forget next time you are in Wien, that there is more then just this museum. Do not forget the Heurigen to just name one thing.

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Thanks Henk, we were 4 days in Vienna & saw quite a bit actually, the tram system there is great so we got around a lot of the inner ring city centre, the churches we viewed were spectacular! We would like to return & stay longer next time, same with Amsterdam, altho we saw a lot in the 4 days we were in the city, there is much more to see. I loved the architecture in both cities!

Bryan