In June 2019 the Free Trieste Movement hosted in the club at the first floor of its Piazza della Borsa 7 office the historical photo exhibit 1914-18: Trieste and Austria-Hungary’s Submarines organized by Civiltà Mitteleuropea and curated by Alessandro Mlach. Here are a selection from that exhibit.
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| In Pola with Unidentified Battleship |
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| SMU-12’s crew, with Commander Egon Lerch |
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| Meeting at sea after a long mission |
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| Action in the Adriatic |
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| Commander Georg von Trapp’s SMU-5 |
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| SMU-1 in Trieste |
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| Loading a torpedo on an SMU |
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| Submarine Sailor of the Dual-Monarchy |
Source: Il Corriere di Trieste, 14 August 2019
The novelist John Biggins has written a terrific tetralogy about a Czech submarine captain fighting for the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It is carefully researched, extremely entertaining historical fiction at its finest. The reader feels that he has first hand knowledge of what it was like to fight in submarines (and, in one book, airplanes) in the Great War.
ReplyDeleteThank you for an excellent article on the naval forces of Austria Hungary!!!
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