Tegethoff-class
An item dated Rome, Italy 11th referred to a statement of the chief of the Italian naval staff that in the early morning the day before 2 small Italian torpedo boats attacked off the Dalmatian islands a division warships of the Austrian navy consisting of 2 large battleships of the Viribus Unitis-class escorted by 10 destroyers. Two torpedoes were fired and chased by the destroyers escaped the torpedo boats back to their base after damaging a Austrian destroyer heavily. One torpedo hit the battleship steaming ahead of the other ships.(1)
Note
1.The Austrian ships were on 10 June 1918 returning from a night patrol along the Dalmation coast when the attack found place. The battleships were the Tegethoff and the Szent István, both of the Tegethoff-class. The Szent István was hit twice abreast her boiler rooms, with as result that she lost all power and within 3 hours she sunk. Laid down at the Ganz&Company, Fiume [Croatia] on 27 January 1912, launched on 17 January 1914 and commissioned on 13 December 1915.
