A total of 13 battleships of the Austro-Hungarian Navy were constructed between 1900 and 1917. The first class of battleships were three Habsburg-class battleships, launched between 1900 and 1902, and were soon followed by three Erzherzog Karl-class battleships, all of which were pre-dreadnoughts. After the appointment of Vice-Admiral Rudolf Montecuccoli to the post of Chief of the Naval Section of the War Ministry in October 1904, the Austro-Hungarian Navy began a program of naval expansion befitting a Great Power. Two years later, the first Radetzky-class battleships were laid down. They were soon succeeded by the Tegetthoff class, which were Austria-Hungary's first and only class of dreadnought battleships. The navy's plans for the construction of a second class of dreadnoughts, named the Ersatz Monarch class, were canceled following the outbreak of World War I. After the collapse of Austria-Hungary in 1918, all of the battleships were handed over to France, Great Britain, the United States, and Italy, and scrapped during the 1920s. (Full list...)