SMS Tegetthoff (1912)
SMS Tegetthoff
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| Name: | SMS Tegetthoff |
| Namesake: | Wilhelm von Tegetthoff |
| Ordered: | 1908 |
| Builder: | Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino, Trieste |
| Laid down: | 24 September 1910 |
| Launched: | 21 March 1912 |
| Commissioned: | 14 July 1913 |
| Fate: | Broken up in Italy, 1924 |
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| Class and type: | Tegetthoff-class battleship |
| Displacement: | 20,000 t (19,684 long tons) standard |
| Length: | 152 m (498 ft 8 in) |
| Beam: | 27.9 m (91 ft 6 in) |
| Draught: | 8.7 m (28 ft 7 in) |
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| Propulsion: | 4 shafts; 4 Parsons steam turbines, |
| Speed: | 20.4 knots (37.8 km/h; 23.5 mph) |
| Range: | 4,200 nmi (7,800 km; 4,800 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement: | 1087 |
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SMS Tegetthoff was an Austro-Hungarian dreadnought battleship of the Tegetthoff class named after Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, a 19th-century Austrian admiral most notable for defeating the Italian Navy in the Battle of Lissa.
Tegetthoff was built at the Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino yard in Trieste as part of the first and only class of dreadnought battleships in the Austro-Hungarian Navy. After her construction in 1912, an earlier armoured battleship named SMS Tegetthoff was renamed Mars.
During World War I, Tegetthoff participated in the bombardment of the Italian city of Ancona. She remained in port in Pola for the rest of the war until she participated in an ill-fated raid on the Otranto Barrage in 1918 that resulted in the loss of her sister ship, SMS Szent István. Following the end of the war in late 1918, Tegetthoff was surrendered to Italy and later scrapped in 1924.
Tegetthoff was ordered by the Austro-Hungarian Navy in 1908. She was the second battleship of the class that shared her name to be built, the first dreadnoughts of the Austro-Hungarian Navy. The keel of Tegetthoff was laid down in Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino shipyard in Trieste on 24 September 1910. Following a year and a half of construction, Tegetthoff was launched on 21 March 1912. Following her fitting out, she was commissioned into the Austro-Hungarian navy on 14 July 1913.
The ship had an overall length of 152 metres (498 ft 8 in), a beam of 27.9 metres (91 ft 6 in), and a draught of 8.7 metres (28 ft 7 in) at deep load. She displaced 20,000 tonnes (19,684 long tons) at load and 21,689 tonnes (21,346 long tons) at deep load.
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