An item referred to the magazine Moniteur de la Flotte dated 23 August reporting that the Viribus Unitis (1) was to be commissioned on 15 September. The magazine claimed that the department of navy claimed that the construction errors mentioned in the past were non-significant. The used armour plates were of a smaller weight than planned in the design and perhaps with a decreased resistance. A special commission seemed to have tested the plates although the steel plant was allowed to deliver the plates under special conditions without paying a penalty. The magazine Le Yacht dated 14 September reported that her artillery was already tested especially the controversial triple turrets. Although the control devices worked excellently was the loading of the separate guns slower and the setting of the directing devices more difficult as with the twin turrets resulting in a slower rate of fire.
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1. Of the Tegethoff-class with as sister ships Tegethoff, Prinz Eugen and Szent Istvan. Laid down at the shipyard Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino on 25 July 1910, launched on 24 June a year later, completed on 5 December 1912 and sunk on 10 June 1918 lying in the harbour of Pola by Italian frogmen using a limpet mine. At that moment she was already not longer part of Austria but handed over to the Yugoslav National Council.
