Battleships of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Viribus Unitis, Tegetthoff, Prinz Eugen and Szent Istvan
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Battleships of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Viribus Unitis, Tegetthoff, Prinz Eugen and Szent Istvan
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The Tegethof battleships represented both the pinnacle and the end of Austrian shipbuilding. Like almost everything in the country, they lacked funds, and without the real feat of the then commander of the fleet, Admiral Count R. Montecuccoli, these ships probably would never have been born. Nevertheless, the first of them, "Viribus Unitis", on December 5, 1912, went into service; it was the world's first battleship with three-gun main caliber turrets. Its 305mm Skoda cannons were undoubtedly one of the finest ship's guns of the time. However, due to insufficient funding and extremely limited displacement, these dreadnoughts had significant design flaws. In general, it was a typical Austrian product, partly high-tech and modern, partly backward. But, on the other hand, the main task of these ships, possessing powerful heavy artillery, was to prevent the enemy landing on the Austrian coast, with which these battleships fully coped. The Allies, who had a superiority in dreadnoughts, did not risk a breakthrough into the Adriatic and kept at a respectful distance throughout the war.
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