Seiner Majestät Schiff

The abbreviation S.M.S. or SMS stood for " His Majesty's ship" and was preceded by the Prussian Maritime Bank, the Prussian navy, the German Imperial Navy and the Imperial Navy and k Austria -Hungary, the ship's name. For example, the German cruiser Emden were referred to as "SMS Emden " or the Austrian battleship Viribus Unitis as "SMS Viribus Unitis ".

Sometimes the abbreviation on S. M. or SM shortened and preceded by the class of ship and the ship's name. It meant then " His Majesty ", such as: SM Light Cruiser Emden ( = His Majesty's light cruiser Emden ).

Special forms for the imperial yachts was the abbreviation SMY or SMY for His Majesty's Yacht and IMY for Her Majesty's Yacht ( the yacht of the Empress ).

Other special forms were:

• S.M.F. = His Majesty's ship fire
• S.M.H. = His Majesty aid ship
• S.M.W. = His Majesty Workshop ship

Was against the sovereign of a SMS spoken designated ship, called the designation " Your Majesty's ship ... ". Language, conversely, the sovereign of a ship so designated, he used the phrase " My / Our ship ... ".

The acronym was created by Eindeutschung the English name HMS (Her (or His) Majesty 's Ship ) or HMY (Her (or His) Majesty 's Yacht ), Example: SMY Hohenzollern of the German emperor Wilhelm II

The submarines of the Imperial and Royal Austro- Hungarian Navy had numbers to which the suffix " SM U " was to be sent.