Heh... The Austrian-Hungarian Navy Pre-WW1 wasn't too bad. Not a first rate navy, no, but it most assuredly was no joke either. Hard to claim Second Rate for that matter, but, where it counted from the A-H point of view, it was all that was needed: At the time, you couldn't go into the Adriatic without the A-H letting you. Of course, that rule didn't apply to the RN, for the RN was *the* 800 pound gorilla of the worlds navies.
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