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SMS Monarch SMS Monarch SMS "Monarch" ("His Majesty's Ship Monarch") was the lead ship of the built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the 1890s. After their commissioning, "Monarch" and the two other "Monarch"-class ships made several training cruises in the Mediterranean Sea in the early 1900s. "Monarch" and her sisters formed the 1st Capital Ship Division of the Austro-Hungarian Navy until they were replaced by the newly commissioned pre-dreadnought battleships at the turn of the century. In 1906 the three "Monarch"s were placed in reserve and only recommissioned during the annual summer training exercises. After the start of World War I, "Budapest"