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Mystery Austro Hungarian Battleship

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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?

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 [url]http://www.geocities.com/tegetthoff66/szent.html[/url] - there's a good diorama by Jim Baumann at [url]http://smmlonline.com/members/mainbrace/jim_baumann/svent_istvan.html[/url]

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.

Luigi Rizzo was the man responsible for this remarkable feat of defiance against their Austro Hungarian adversary at the time. Today, he is held in the highest regard by the Italian navy for this action on 10 June 1918. The new FREMM frigates being constructed now are the Carlo Bergamini class, all named in honour of Italian Naval heroes of the last Century. The first four are: Carlo Bergamini Virginio Fasan Carlo Margottini Luigi Rizzo And all four names are exactly as those frigates built by Italy in the early 1960's and which saw service to the early 80's. The fighting in this region during the Great war is not well known in the UK, and the British army was heavily involved with serious casualties. As many men from both sides died here on land as on the Western front.

Rizzo was also responsible for sinking Wien. Among successful MTB skippers, no one is even close to Rizzo. In my opinion, the Tegetthoff design was the most flawed among battleships of its generation.

Not so certain they, the 4 Tegetthoff class, were the most flawed design, although late by Dreadnought standards, they did bring new features to the type even at this late day in the proceedings, many which had been considered by the RN and other front line navies some years before. In fact, many years before. AH had more serious issues than the perceived merits or otherwise of their ships. The tactical side, the fact which firstly left them stuffed up the North end of the Adriatic, still not certain by the end of 1914 which side Italy would join, secondly their total lack of coal and crucially the incompetence and indifference of their crews, from all the differing parts of that Empire. No cohesion whatsoever, all at each others throats and hated the sight of one another. Most probably liked their enemy, Italy principally, more than their shipmates.

Very flawed design but inevitable in view of various constricting factors- size of dry docks at Pola, Trieste and Rijeka (Fiume)- and the decision to mount twelve x 12in guns on quite a small hull. Austrian shipbuilders hadn't much experience of building such large vessels and the job was poorly done. However I must take issue with the urban myth that the crews of KuK vessels were at each other's throats all the time. Simply not true. German was the command language and everyone in the ship's company had to be able to understand and execute orders given in that language.

I believe that the film was shown to raise funds for the children of sailors killed in the war.

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