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Wednesday, 2 November 2016

The new Austrian-Hungarian battleships according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1909-1910 no. 6

Tegethoff-class

An item referred to the magazine Schiffbau reporting that the 4 proposed battleships (1) of the Austrian-Hungarian navy had a displacement of 19.600 tons and an armament of 5x2-30,5cm L/45 Skoda guns in gun turrets on the center-line and 18-12cm guns.

Note
1. The Tegethoff-class consisting of the SMS Viribus Unitis, Tegethoff, Prinz Eugen and Szent Isván, preceded by the Radetzky-class and succeeded by the Ersatz Monarch-class,  with a displacement of 20.008 tons and a main armament of 4x3-30,48cm guns in turrets before and after the superstructure on the center-line, laid down in 1910 and 1912.