Austria-Hungary • Österreich-Ungarn • Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia • Austro-Węgry • Austro-Ugarska • Rakousko-Uhersko • Austria-Ungheria • Austro-Ungaria • Австро-Угорщина • Avstro-Ogrska • Аустро-Угарска

06.01.1453: Archduchy of Austria above and below the Enns • Erzherzogtum Österreich ob und unter der Enns
18.01.1798: annexation of Venetian Republic
11.08.1804: Empire of Austria • Kaisertum Österreich
07.04.1815-23.08.1866: union with Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom
21.12.1867: short name: Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy • Österreichisch-Ungarische Monarchie • Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia; full name: Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and Lands of the Hungarian Crown of St. Stephen • Die im Reichsrat vertretenen Königreiche und Länder und die Länder der heiligen ungarischen Stephanskrone • A birodalmi tanácsban képviselt királyságok és országok és a magyar szent korona országai
11.11.1918: end of Habsburg dynastic rule
12.11.1918: proclamation of German Austria

Area: 622,518 km² (1870); 676,615 km² (1914)
Population: 27,207,351 (1820); 36,950,401 (1840); 35,904,435 (1869); 48,592,000 (1907)
Capital: Wien (Vienna)
Currency: 1753-1892 (gold): 4 ducat = 17 thaler
• 1753-1857: 1 gulden = 60 kreuzer = 240 pfennig
• 1816-1857 (Lombardy-Venetia): 1 scudo = 6 lire = 100 centisimi
• 1857-1866: 1 vereinsthaler = 1½ gulden + 1 gulden = 100 kreuzer (fiorino = 100 scudi in Lombardy-Venetia)
• 1867-1892: 1 gulden (F or Fl) = 100 kreuzer (forint = 100 krajczár)
• 1892-1918: 1 krone (K or kr) = 100 heller (korona = 100 fillér)
Ethnic groups: German 24%, Hungarian 19%, Czech 13%, Polish 9%, Ukrainian 7%, Romanian 6%, Croat 5%, Slovak 4%, Serb 4%, Slovene 3%, Italian 3%, Jew 3% (1910)
Official languages: till 1867 only German; 1867-1918 German (central), and local: Hungarian (Hungary), Polish (Galicia), Croatian (Croatia, Dalmatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina), Czech (Bohemia and Moravia), Italian (Küstenland), Romanian and Ukrainian (Bucovina), Slovenian (Carniola, Küstenland) and Serbian (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Merchant marine:
• 1850: 32 steamers (7,941 t) and 3564 sailships (252,120 t)
• 1859: 59 steamers (21,338 t), 3275 sailships (305,189 t) and 6369 small vessels (22,630 t)
• 1871: 91 steamers (49,977 t), 3023 sailships (311,276 t) and 4729 small vessels (14,569 t)
• 1882: 112 steamers (66,859 t), 2367 sailships (312,056 t) and 6039 small vessels (14,773 t)
• 1892: 173 steamers (97,852 t), 1995 sailships (230,326 t) and 8385 small vessels (20,232 t)
• 1902: 229 steamers (243,512 Grt) and 12792 sailships (58,196 Grt)
• 1908: 393 steamers (403,301 Grt) and 14362 sailships (52,233 Grt)
• 1914: 433 ships of 100 Grt of over (1,018,210 Grt)
Coastline: c. 6,100 km

Navy | Naval Aviation | Customs
Overseas possessions:

• Austrian Netherlands (Belgium): 05.1713-01.1790, 12.1790-11.1792 and 03.1793-07.1794 (ceded 18.08.1797)
• Cabelon (Kovalam, at Coromandel Coast): 08.1719-1730/50s; and Banquibazar (in Bengal): 07.1723-10.1744 (both owned by Oostendse Compagnie)
• Nicobar (Theresia) Islands: 07.1778-1783/84
• Holstein: 09.1865-06.1866
• Concession in Tientsin (Tiānjīn): 09.1901-08.1917 (renounced 10.09.1919)
Major wars & other armed conflicts

1788-1791: war with Turkey
04.1792-10.1797: "War of the First Coalition" against France
09.1799-02.1801: "War of the Second Coalition" against France
11.1803-11.1805: "showing flag" deployment in Moroccan waters.
04.1805-12.1805: "War of the Third Coalition" against France (01.1806 Venezia evacuated)
04.1809-10.1809: "War of the Fifth Coalition" against France (05.1809 French conquered Austrian coast)
08.1813-04.1814 "War of the Sixth Coalition" against France (26.08.1813 Austrians enter Fiume, 29.10.1813 seized Trieste, 22.04.1814 Venezia)
03.1815-05.1815: "Neapolitan War" against Naples
03.1815-06.1815: "Hundred Days' War" against France
03.1821: intervention in Kingdom of Two Sicilies
07.1821-03.1830: deployed against Greek piracy
01.1829-01.1830: operation against Moroccan corsairs
1839-1841: took part in "Second Egyptian War" against Egypt
03.1848-08.1849: "First Italian War" against Sardinia
03.1848-08.1849: Venetian revolution
03.1848-08.1849: Hungarian revolution
04.1854-03.1857: occupation of Wallachia and Moldavia
06-07.1859: "Second Italian War" against France and Sardinia (lost)
01-05.1864: "Schleswig war" against Denmark (Helgoland battle, 09.05.1864)
06-08.1866: war against Prussia (not involved at sea) and Italy (won sea battle at Lissa, 20.07.1866).
06-10.1900: involved in international operation against "Boxers' Uprising" in China (20.06.1900 Chinese war declaration)
08.1914-10.1918: First World War (declarations of war: 28.07.1914 Serbia, 05.08.1914 Montenegro, 06.08.1914 Russia, 11.08.1914 France, 12.08.1914 British Empire, 22.08.1914 Belgium, 25.08.1914 Japan, 23.05.1915 Italy, 03.06.1915 San Marino, 06.12.1915 Albania, 15.03.1916 Portugal, 27.08.1916 Romania, 02.07.1917 Greece, 22.07.1917 Siam, 14.08.1917 China, 07.12.1917 United States 10.12.1917 Panama, 16.12.1917 Cuba, 08.05.1918 Nicaragua); major battles at sea: attack on Ancona - 24.05.1915, and battle near Durazzo - 29.12.1915

Imperial and Royal Navy • Kaiserlich und königlich Kriegsmarine
[Hung. Császári és Királyi Haditengerészet]

1776-1786: local coast fleets in Trieste and Fiume
1786-1797: Triester Kriegsmarine (under local government)
05.1797-1802: Venezianisch-Österreichische Kriegsmarine
1802-01.1806: Österreichische Kriegsmarine
01.1806-11.1809: limited Triester Kriegsmarine
11.1809-11.1813: abolished (as Austria lost access to sea)
04.1814-03.1848: Kaiserlich-königlich Kriegsmarine (Imperiale Regia Marina)
03.1848-1849: Marina di Seiner Majestät Costituzionale
11.1849-1889: Kaiserlich-königlich Kriegsmarine
1889-1918: Kaiserlich und königlich Kriegsmarine

Personnel: 6+94 (1786), 66 (1792), 600 (1805), 2700 (1815), 3013 (1817), 156+5000 (1847), 55+665 (04.1848), 292+4199 and 57+1982 marines (1858), 889+6063 and 56+1806 marines (1862), 467+5702 (1871), 848+4988 (1880), 942+7500 and 4500 marines (1892), 986+8500 (1903), 1210+11500 (1908), 1630+20518 (1913), 33735 (1915)
Ethnic composition:
• 1786: 39 South Slavs (non-Dalmatian), 33 Dalmatians, 7 Britons, 4 Italians (non-Adriatic), 4 Germans, 3 Dutchmen, 2 Irishmen, 1 Swede, Frenchman and Spaniard
• 1802: 60% Italian, 18% South Slav, 12% French, 7% German, 3% other
• 1805: 53% Italian, 21% French, 14% South Slav, 6% German, 6% other
• 1809: 44% Italian, 22% South Slav, 15% German, 10% French, 9% other
• 1817: 75% Italian, 20% South Slav, 5% German and other
• 1844 (officers): 59% Italian, 17% German, 15% South Slav, 8% other
• 02.1848 (officers): 60% Italian, 17% South Slav, 15% German, 7% other
• 05.1848 (officers): 36% German, 35% Italian, 13% South Slav, 16% other
Prefix to ships' names: SMS (Seiner Majestät Schiff), SMT (Seiner Majestät Torpedoboot), SMU (Seiner Majestät Unterseeboot) etc.
Command language: German; till 1849 Italian
Main bases:
• 1776-1797, 1806-1809 and 1848-1850 Trieste (plan, c.1860)
• 1797-1806 and 1814-1848 Venezia (plan, 1841)
• 1850-1918 Pola (map)

List of admirals: spreadsheet
Timeline of 10.1918-1922 events:
06.10.1918: National Council of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs established in Zagreb.
16.10.1918: Emperor Charles issued famous "federalization manifesto".
21.10.1918: Germans in Reichsrat proclaimed themselves to be the "provisional Assembly of German Austria".
23.10.1918: Forces loyal to National Council temporary seized control of Fiume (till 24.10).
24.10.1918: Italian army launched an offensive in Austrian front.
25.10.1918: Hungarian National Council established in Budapest.
27.10.1918: Austro-Hungarian government asked for armistice.
28.10.1918: "Sailor councils" in Pola decided that crews would leave their ships by 01.11; only submarine crews standed fast; Czecho-Slovak Republic proclaimed in Prague.
29.10.1918: National Council proclaimed a State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs; naval and merchant ships in Sebenico hoisted South Slavic ensign; Germans evacuated their base in Pola.
30.10.1918: Emperor Charles ordered all navy ships and establishments to be handed to National Council in Zagreb; Germans evacuated their submarines from Cattaro; "provisional government of German Austria" established in Vienna.
31.10.1918: At 16:45 ships in Pola hoisted South Slavic ensign; Poles occupied Galicia; National Council of Slovenia and Istria established; Trieste controlled by local Italians.
01.11.1918: At 08:00 ships in Bocche di Cattaro hoisted South Slavic ensign; At 06:34 Viribus Unitis sunk by Italian MAS-boat in Pola.
02.11.1918: South Slavic authorities requested that United States take over Austro-Hungarian fleet; Danube flotilla hoisted Hungarian flag (still alongside Austro-Hungarian ensign).
03.11.1918: Armistice signed with Allies in Villa Giusti (to be effective on 04.11, at 15:00); Trieste occupied by Italians.
04.11.1918: Fiume, Zara, Abbazia and most of Dalmatian coast occupied by Italians (last: Veglia at 15.11, Arbe 27.11).
05.11.1918: Pola and Sebenico occupied by Italians.
06.11.1918: Formal demobilization of Austro-Hungarian forces.
07.11.1918: Independence of Poland proclaimed in Warsaw.
07.11 Radetzky and 10.11 Zrinyi with Slavic crews, hoisted American flag and escaped to Buccari, and later to Spalato.
09.11.1918: All "sailor councils" dissolved; most of remaining ships in Pola and Sebenico hoisted Italian ensign, only Lacroma left under South Slavic control; Allied cruisers steamed into Bocche; Italian negotiator Ugo Conz demanded Austro-Hungarian navy to be "given to Italy or destroyed".
10.11.1918: Ships in Bocche di Cattaro handed under Allied control.
11.11.1918: Emperor Charles renounced rule - end of Habsburg empire; last ships taken by Italians in Pola.
12.11.1918: Republic of German Austria proclaimed.
13.11.1918: Hungary signed separate armistice.
16.11.1918: Allied Admirals Conference in Venice laid down occupation zones of the Dalmatian coast: Italians - Triest and Istria, Americans - area around Spalato, French and British conjointly - Bocche di Cattaro, British and Americans conjointly - Fiume; independence of Hungary proclaimed.
17.11.1918: Occupations effective.
22.11.1918: Battleship Zrinyi taken in USN service in Spalato.
24.11.1918: Most of Austro-Hungarian ships in Adriatic hoisted American flag.
26.11.1918: Montenegro united with Serbia.
01.12.1918: Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (SHS) proclaimed.
19.12.1918-07.01.1919: Ships in Bocche being disarmed by Allies.
10.01.1919: Yugoslavian ensign unhoisted at ships in Bocche.
02.1919: Remaining Slavic crews onboard ships in Bocche disembarked.
21.03.1919: Hungarian Soviet Republic proclaimed (supressed in 08.1919).
23.03.1919: Italians transferred (without mutual agreement) part of the ships from Pola to Venice.
10.09.1919: Peace treaty signed by Austria in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
12.09.1919: Italian nationalists under Gabriele d'Annunzio seized Fiume.
17.10.1919: Heavy storm caused sinking of some ex-Austro-Hungarian warships (Kaiser Franz Joseph I., Tb 12 and Tb 52).
09.12.1919: General fate of Austro-Hungarian warships decided by Supreme Council of Peace Conference.
13.01.1920: Final distribution of ships decided in Paris.
07.04.1920: Marinesektion (naval department) in Vienna abolished.
04.06.1920: Peace treaty signed by Hungary in Trianon.
08.03-08.08.1920: IANCC (Inter-Allied Naval Control Committee for Austria) acting in Vienna.
20-27.09.1920: Allocated ships taken over by Italy.
07.11.1920: Radetzky and Zrinyi taken over to Italy.
15.11.1920: Four patrol boats given (in Novi Sad) to Austrian Danube flotilla (came to Vienna at 14.05.1921).
1920: Allocated ships taken over by United Kingdom, France and Romania.
1920 and 1922: Allocated ships taken over by Greece.
04.03.1921: Allocated ships taken over by Kingdom of SHS.
24.08.1921: Separate American-Austrian peace treaty signed.
03-11.1921: Allocated ships taken over by Portugal.

Ensigns

1730-11.1749:

11.1749-03.1786:

03.1786-1804:

1804-1828:

1828-1853:


1853-03.1869:


03.1869-1874:


1874-12.1894:


12.1894-10.1915:

10.1915-10.1918:


signal flags (1822-1878) 		Ranks insignia




Before 1880: ranks

1880-1908: ranks
1910-1918:
Maps

Till 1797 and 1806-1809:


1798-1805:


1814-1866:


1866-1918:


Bocche di Cattaro (detailed):
Archdukes (Erzherzog von Österreich):
04.1711-10.1740Karl VI. [Joseph Franz]
10.1740-11.1780Maria Theresia I.
11.1780-02.1790Joseph II. [Benedikt August Johann Anton Michael Adam]
02.1790-03.1792 Leopold II. [Peter Joseph]
03.1792-03.1804 Franz II. [Joseph Karl]
Emperors (Von Gottes Gnaden, Kaiser von Österreich):
08.1804-03.1835 Franz I. (same as higher)
03.1835-12.1848 Ferdinand I. [Karl Leopold Joseph Franz Marcelin]
12.1848-11.1916 Franz Josef I. [Karl]
11.1916-11.1918 Karl I. [Franz Josef Ludwig Hubert Georg Maria]

Chancellors (Haus-, Hof- und Staatskanzler):
01.1753-08.1792 Wenzel Anton Reichsfürst von Kaunitz-Rittberg
08.1792-03.1793 Johann Philipp Graf von Cobenzl
03.1793-1800 Johann Amadeus Franz de Paula Maria Freiherr von Thugut
1800-1801 Ferdinand Graf von Trauttmansdorff (acting)
1801-12.1805 Johann Ludwig Josef Graf von Cobenzl
12.1805-10.1809 Johann Philipp Karl Graf von Stadion-Warthausen
Minister of State:
10.1809-05.1821 Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar Graf von Metternich-Winneburg
Chancellor:
05.1821-03.1848 Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar Fürst von Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein, Herzog von Portella
Conference of State Ministers, Chairman (regency):
12.1836-12.1848Ludwig Joseph Anton Johann, Erzherzog von Österreich
Prime ministers:
03.1848 Alfred Candidus Ferdinand Fürst zu Windischgrätz
03.1848-04.1848 Franz Anton Graf von Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky (acting)
04.1848-05.1848 GdK Karl Ludwig Graf von Ficquelmont (acting)
05.1848-07.1848 Franz Freiherr von Pillersdorf (acting)
07.1848 Anton Freiherr von Doblhoff-Dier (acting)
07.1848-11.1848 Johann Philipp Freiherr von Wessenberg-Ampringen
11.1848-04.1852 Felix Fürst zu Schwarzenberg
04.1852-08.1859 Karl Ferdinand Graf von Buol-Schauenstein
08.1859-02.1861 Johann Bernhard Graf von Rechberg und Rothenlöwe
Minister of State:
02.1861-06.1865 Rainer Ferdinand Maria Johann Evangelist Franz Ignaz, Erzherzog von Österreich
Chairmen of the Council of Ministers:
02.1861-06.1865 Anton von Schmerling
06.1865-07.1865 Alexander Graf von Mensdorff-Pouilly (acting)
07.1865-02.1867 Richard Graf von Belcredi
Prime Ministers (Ministerpräsident Österreichs):
02.1867-12.1867 Friedrich Ferdinand Freiherr von Beust
12.1867-09.1868 Karl Fürst von Auersperg, Herzog von Gottschee
09.1868-01.1870 Eduard Graf von Taaffe (acting to 04.1869)
01.1870-02.1870 Ignaz Edler von Plener
02.1870-04.1870 Leopold Ritter Hasner von Artha (acting)
04.1870-02.1871 Alfred Graf Potocki von Pilawa
02.1871-10.1871 Karl Siegmund Graf von Hohenwart (acting)
10.1871-11.1871 Kudwig Freiherr von Holzgethan (acting)
11.1871-02.1879 Adolf Wilhelm Daniel Fürst von Auersperg
02.1879-08.1879 Karl von Stremayr (acting)
08.1879-11.1893 Eduard Graf von Taaffe (acting)
11.1893-06.1895 Alfred August Fürst zu Windischgrätz
06.1895-09.1895 Erich Graf von Kielmansegg
09.1895-11.1897 Kazimierz Feliks Graf von Badeni
11.1897-03.1898 Paul Freiherr Gautsch von Frankenthurn
03.1898-10.1899 Franz Graf von Thun und Hohenstein
10.1899-12.1899 Manfred Graf von Clary und Aldringen
12.1899-01.1900 Heinrich Ritter von Wittek (acting)
01.1900-12.1904 Ernst von Koerber
12.1904-05.1906 Paul Freiherr Gautsch von Frankenthurn
05.1906-06.1906 Konrad Prinz von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst
06.1906-11.1908 Max Wladimir Freiherr von Beck
11.1908-06.1911 Richard Freiherr von Bienerth-Schmerling
06.1911-11.1911 Paul Freiherr Gautsch von Frankenthurn
11.1911-10.1916 Karl Reichsgraf von Stürgkh
10.1916-12.1916 Ernst von Koerber
12.1916-06.1917 Heinrich Graf von Clam-Martinic
06.1917-07.1918 Ernst Ritter Seidler von Feuchtenegg
07.1918-10.1918 Max Freiherr Hussarek von Heinlein
10.1918-11.1918 Heinrich Lammasch

Presidents of the Court Council of War (Hofkriegsrats-Präsident):
1774-03.1790 FM Andreas Graf Hadik von Futak
1791-1796 FM Michael Johann Ignaz Graf von Wallis, Freiherr von Karighmain
1796-1801 GdK Ferdinand Graf von Tige
1801-1809 FM Karl Ludwig Johann Joseph Lorenz Erzherzog von Österreich, Herzog von Teschen
1809-1813 FM Heinrich Friedrich Joseph Johannes Graf von Bellegarde, Marquis de Marches et d'Antremont
1814-10.1820 FM Karl Philipp Johann Nepomucen Joseph Fürst von Schwarzenberg, Herzog von Krumau, Landgraf im Kleggau
11.1820-1825 FM Heinrich Friedrich Joseph Johannes Graf von Bellegarde, Marquis de Marches et d'Antremont
1825-1830 GdK Friedrich Franz Xaver Prinz von Hohenzollern-Hechingen
1830-11.1831 FZM Ignaz Graf Gyulai von Máros-Neméth und Nádaska
12.1831-02.1848 GdK Ignaz Johann Franz Graf von Hardegg auf Glatz und im Marchlande
Ministers of War (Kriegsminister, 1867-1911 Reichskriegsminister):
04.1848 FML Peter Zanini
04.1848-10.1848 FZM Theodor Graf Baillet de Latour
11.1848-06.1849 FML Franz Freiherr von Cordon
06.1849-07.1850 FML Ferencz József Graf Gyulay von Maros-Németh und Nádaska
07.1850-02.1853 FML Anton Freiherr Csorich von Monte Creto
02.1853-10.1860 post abolished
10.1860-02.1864 FZM August Franz Johann Christoph Graf von Degenfeld-Schonburg
02.1864-09.1866 FML Karl Ritter von Franck
09.1866-01.1868 FML Franz Xaver Freiherr von John
01.1868-06.1874 FZM Franz Freiherr Kuhn von Kuhnenfeld
06.1874-06.1876 GdK Alexander Freiherr von Koller
06.1876-03.1888 FZM Arthur Maximilian Adrian Graf von Bylandt-Rheidt
03.1888-07.1893 FZM Ferdinand Freiherr von Bauer
07.1893-09.1893 FML Rudolf Freiherr von Merkl (acting)
09.1893-12.1902 GdK Edmund Freiherr von Krieghammer
12.1902-10.1906 FZM Heinrich Martin Ritter von Pitreich
10.1906-09.1911 FZM Franz Freiherr von Schönaich
09.1911-12.1912 GdI Moritz Friedrich Josef Eugen Freiherr Auffenberg von Komarów
12.1912-04.1917 FZM Alexander Freiherr von Krobatin
04.1917-11.1918 GdI Rudolf Freiherr von Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten

Governors of Trieste:
1776Franz Xaver von Königsbrunn
1776-1782 Johann Karl Graf von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf
1782-1786 ...
1786-1797 Pompeo de Brigido (Graf von Brigido und Bresowitz)
05.1797-11.1801 Raimund Graf von Thurn

Governors of Fiume:
10.1776-1783 József gróf Majláth Székhélyi
1783-1788 Pál gróf Almásy Zladányi
1788-1791 János Pétar gróf Szápáry
1791-05.1798 Sándor Pásztory gróf Szapáry

Commanders of Navy (Marine-Commandant, Marinekommandant):
1725-c.1738 Deigham
1738-1744 navy abolished
1744-af.1754 Gen. Gian Luca conte Pallavicini (also governor-general of Milan)
af.1754-1767 ...
1767-1770 Jean-Charles-François chevalier de Meaussé
1770-1786 post abolished
10.1786-1790 Cpt. Botts
1791-02.1798 Mjr. George Simson
11.1797-02.1798 Lt.Col. James Ernest von Williams
02.1798-01.1802 Andrea conte Querini
01.1802-08.1805 Col. Joseph comte de l'Espine
08.1805-12.1805 KAdm. Sylvestro conte Dandolo
01.1806-01.1810 GM Joseph comte de l'Espine (acting till 04.1807)
01.1810-08.1813 navy disbanded
08.1813-07.1814 FML Joseph comte de l'Espine (provisional)
07.1814-03.1824 GM August Joseph von Conninck
03.1824-08.1844 VAdm. Amilcaro marchese Paulucci delle Roncole
08.1844-10.1847 VAdm. Friedrich Ferdinand Leopold Erzherzog von Österreich
10.1847-11.1847 VAdm. Sylvestro conte Dandolo
11.1847-12.1847 LSK Johann Ritter Marinovich (acting)
12.1847-03.1848 VAdm. Anton Ritter von Martini
03.1848-09.1848 FML Ferencz József Graf Gyulay von Maros-Németh und Nádaska (provisional)
09.1848-02.1849 VAdm. Anton Ritter von Martini
02.1849-04.1849 KAdm. August Franz Joseph Freiherr von Sourdeau (acting)
04.1849-08.1851 VAdm. Hans Birch Freiherr von Dahlerup
08.1851-09.1854 FML Franz Graf von Wimpffen (provisional)
09.1854-01.1864 VAdm. Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph, Erzherzog von Österreich
01.1864-03.1864 vacant
03.1864-03.1868 VAdm. Ludwig Ritter von Fautz (acting)
03.1868-04.1871 VAdm. Wilhelm Josef Freiherr von Tegetthoff
04.1871-11.1883 VAdm. Friedrich Freiherr von Pöck
11.1883-12.1897 VAdm. Maximilian Daublebsky Freiherr von Sterneck zu Ehrenstein
12.1897-10.1904 VAdm. Hermann Freiherr von Spaun
10.1904-02.1913 Adm. Rudolf Ludwig Raimund Heinrich Alfons Graf von Montecuccoli degli Erri, Marchese di Polignago
02.1913-02.1917 GAdm. Anton Johann Haus
02.1917-04.1917 VAdm. Karl Kailer von Kaltenfels (acting)
04.1917-02.1918 Adm. Maximilian Njegovan
02.1918-11.1918 KAdm. Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya (acting)

Seconds-in-command:
1803-08.1805 Cpt. Sylvestro conte Dandolo
08.1805-12.1805 Cpt. Nicoló Pasqualigo
01.1806-01.1810 Col. August Joseph von Conninck
01.1810-1824 navy disbanded, later post abolished
1824-06.1835 KAdm. Matthew Flanegan
06.1835-1838 vacant
1838-10.1847 VAdm. Sylvestro conte Dandolo
10.1847-03.1848 LSK Johann Ritter Marinovich
04.1848-08.1849 KAdm. Johann Andreas Angelo Buratovich von Flaggentreu
09.1849-12.1856 KAdm. Alexander Freiherr von Bujacovich
01.1857-05.1857 KAdm. Károly Gyujtó von Sépsi-Mártonos
05.1857-08.1857 VAdm. Alexander Freiherr von Bujacovich
08.1857-10.1860 KAdm. Anton Michael Freiherr Bourguignon von Baumberg
10.1860-03.1861 LSK Alfons Ritter von Wissiak
03.1861-07.1861 LSK Béla Mátyás Anton Graf Hadik von Futak
07.1861-03.1865 KAdm. Alfons Freiherr von Wissiak
03.1865-05.1866 vacant
05.1866-03.1868 KAdm. Friedrich Freiherr von Pöck
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