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SMS Radetzky

List of ships with the same or similar names

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2021
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Three ships of the Austrian and Austro-Hungarian Navy have been named SMS Radetzky:SMS Radetzky (1854), a screw frigate destroyed in an accidental explosion in 1869

SMS Radetzky (1872), a screw frigate

SMS Radetzky (1909), a pre-dreadnought battleship

Editorial summary

“SMS Radetzky” enters the record as list of ships with the same or similar names. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Radetzky, List and ships can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1854, 1869, 1872, 1909—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Radetzky, List and ships.
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Why this record matters

“SMS Radetzky” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Radetzky, List and ships provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 17, 2021. The first chronological checks are 1854, 1869, 1872 and 1909.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “SMS Radetzky” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.