Josef von Romako

Josef Ritter von Romako was an Austro-Hungarian naval designer in the 19th century. He was responsible for designing most of the ironclad warships of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, from the first vessels of the Drache class in the early 1860s to SMS Tegetthoff, built in the late 1870s and early 1880s.^[1] He was born in 1828 and died in 1882.^[2]

Notes

1. Gardiner, pp. 267–270
2. Pawlik, p. 13

References

• Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-133-5.
• Pawlik, Georg (2003). Des Kaisers Schwimmende Festungen: die Kasemattschiffe Österreich-Ungarns. Vienna: Neuer Wissenschaftlicher Verlag. ISBN 9783708300450.