The Szent Istvan was sunk in-action by two torpedoes from an Italian torpedo boat during a fleet sortie. Two of the four were casualties during WWI. The navy's general inactivity was partly caused by a lack of coal, which as the war progressed became a problem, and partly by a fear of mines in the Adriatic, which also kept the Italian navy in port for most of the war. The Austro-Hungarian navy saw little action during the First World War, spending much of its time in its base at Pola (now Pula, Croatia), but the mere fact of its existence tied up the Italian and French navies in the Mediterranean for the duration of the war. The Tegetthoff also had a complicated, and in emergencies impractical, system of watertight doors between compartments below the waterline. German battleships from the same period had 4.5 meters. The Tegetthoff class had only 2.45 meters between the outer hull and the inner anti-torpedo bulkhead. A more serious problem was the weak armor below the waterline. The absence of a raised forecastle deck, left out to decrease weight, gave the ships worse maritime capabilities than ships equipped with it. The design of the class had some weaknesses. The triple turret was built at the koda Works, in Plzeň, Bohemia, and was available at short notice because koda were already working on a design for an order for the Russian navy. The ships of this class were among the first ships to utilise triple gun turrets for its main armament, the first one being the Italian battleship Dante Alighieri whom the Austrian ships were supposed to act against in a war as for the Italian ship, this choice made it possible to deliver a heavier broadside than other dreadnoughts of a similar size. The chief designer of the Austro-Hungarian navy, Siegfried Popper, was nearly blind at this stage (he was retired before the ships were launched), and some have blamed this for design deficiencies of the class of ships. The Austrian government ordered the construction of a new fleet in 1908 following the announcement of the start of construction of first dreadnought for the Regia Marina (the Italian navy): the RN Dante Alighieri.
Four ships were built, SMS Viribus Unitis, SMS Tegetthoff, SMS Prinz Eugen and SMS Szent Istvan. The Tegetthoff class (sometimes called Viribus Unitis class) was the sole class of dreadnought battleship built for the Austro-Hungarian navy. Professional 3D image of the real Tegetthoff-class This ship, made by primarily by General Matt with a little help from The Coyote and Wolfshanze, is an Austrian Dreadnought, based on the Tegetthoff-class. progress on new naval units continues, and here is his latest work. he still can't access CFC, so I'm posting it for him.
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