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I-Ielgolancl in 1859 and on the other hand 01' the day 01' Lissa in 1866.
navy against larger navies, on one hand far away in the North Sea at the fight of
These clevelopments laicl the basis for the coming successes of the Austrian
l'or improvisation ancl target-mincleclness.
cers and crews clown into a hard ancl motivatecl personal body with quite a talent
difficult months of the years 1848 ancl 1849 sintered the loyal imperial naval offi-
ger militalY organism, than the Austro-Venetian navy hacl ever been before. The
transformecl into a mllch more motivatecl, more loyal, more disciplinecl ancl big-
ancl a clean up l'or the imperial navy, which after the revolution 01' 1848 was quickly
The revolution 01' Venice ancl 01' its naval boclies meant a shock, a shake clown
year 1848 summeclllp as follows:
For the imperial navy 01' Austria itself lhe consequences 01' the revolutionary
quences.
centrai seat ancllogistic basis 01' the imperial navy - with grave economie conse-
01' the Allstrian Navy. Venice hacl by its revolution clefinitely lost ist role as former
After ali these measures Venice remained only one 01' the four naval clistricts
Soon also the main arsenal 01' the navy was transferrecl from Venice to Pola.
ancl was later transferrecl to Pola.
Trieste remainecl the seat 01' the centrai naval command 01' the Austrian navy
named Leipzig etc.
tisecl in honour 01' the great victory over Napoleon at Leipzig, l'rom now on was
The italianised names of the ships where now germanisecl: p.e. Lipsia, bap-
the commancls in italian l'or the first coming years).
instructions ancl as the commancllanguage (with the rather peculiar repetition 01'
The navy introclucecl only now the german language in the written service
moted to a naval Academy ancl moreover transferrecl lo Trieste.
The education in the naval college was reorganised, the College soon pro-
for young people from inner Austria.
By various incentives the naval service was generally macle more interesting
imperial navy were taken, viz.:
Simultaneously various other measures for a further "austrification" of the
Austro-Venetian ancl then Austrian navy after their return lo their home countries.
ly very valuable ancl independant biographs and reporters 01' the situation in the
naval officers were hired in Germany and in Scandinavia, some of them historical-
the same time an "austrification" 01' the imperial navy, a number of experienced
considerabile. In order to fili these gaps quickly and with the intention to reach at
navy, the gaps in the numbers of educated naval officers and crews were still

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