![]() ![]() Their secondary armament consisted of twelve 150-millimetre (5.91 in)/50 K 10 guns mounted in casemates amidships. ArmamentĮach ship had an armament consisting of twelve 305-millimetre (12 in)/45- caliber K 10 guns in four triple turrets mounted on the center-line, forward and aft of the superstructure. At full capacity, she could steam for 4,200 nautical miles (7,800 km) at a speed of 10 knots (12 mph 19 km/h). She carried 1,844.5 tonnes (1,815.4 long tons) of coal, and an additional 267.2 tonnes (263.0 long tons) of fuel oil that was to be sprayed on the coal to increase its burn rate. The turbines were designed to produce a total of 27,000 shaft horsepower (20,134 kW), which was theoretically enough to attain her designed speed of 20 knots (23 mph 37 km/h), but no figures from her speed trials are known to exist. The turbines were powered by twelve Babcock & Wilcox boilers. The propulsion consisted of four Parsons steam turbines, each of which was housed in a separate engine-room. She displaced 20,000 tonnes (19,684 long tons) at load and 21,689 tonnes (21,346 long tons) at deep load. The ships had an overall length of 152 metres (498 ft 8 in), a beam of 27.9 metres (91 ft 6 in), and a draught of 8.7 metres (28 ft 7 in) at deep load. After the transfer to State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, Virbus Unitus was sunk by Italian frogmen, and Tegetthoff and Prinz Eugen were transferred to Italy and France, respectively.Ĭharacteristics File:SMS Saint Stephen.jpg The Tegetthoffs attempted to sortie through the Otranto Barrage with the support of lighter ships in 1918, but failed after Szent István was sunk. The first three ships, Viribus Unitis, Tegetthoff and Prinz Eugen were joined by their sister in 1915, when they bombarded the Italian installations at Ancona. The smaller size of the Fiume shipyards meant that Szent István was built three years after her sisters, with slightly different characteristics. Three of the four were laid down in Trieste, with Szent Istvan being built at Fiume, to incorporate both parts of the dual monarchy into the construction of the ships. Four ships were built, Viribus Unitis, Tegetthoff, Prinz Eugen and Szent István. ![]() The Tegetthoff-class (sometimes erroneously named the Viribus Unitis-class) was the sole class of dreadnought battleship built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy. ![]()
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