Mystery Austro Hungarian Battleship

[Digger]

there is a DVD showing the Battle for the Med during WWII, one of the shots is of a World War 1 battle ship listing heavily to starboard and then turning turtle, she has triple turrets and is not making way. Does anyone know the possible name of this ship?

[tjstoneman]

Not a great mystery - it was the Austro-Hungarian SVENT ISTVAN, sunk on 10 June 1918 by Italian MAS Boats. A Google search under her name will give more detail, for example http://www.geocities.com/tegetthoff66/szent.html - there's a good diorama by Jim Baumann at http://smmlonline.com/members/mainbrace/jim_baumann/svent_istvan.html

[Digger]

Thank you for the information, I had heard the name before but wasn't sure this was the same ship. Thank you for the threads to follow, an interesting navy from a very diverse nation.