None the less due to some Hungarian and Italian Naval enthusiasts as well as sheer luck I was able to collect as much info as I could. Meaning while most of the documents were held in Vienna (Austria), some documents could be found in Budapest (Hungary), Pola and Zagreb (Croatia), Venezia (Italy) or might be even in Prague (Czech Republic). The Ersatz Monarch classa (also informally known as the Improved Tegetthoff class) was a class of four dreadnought battleships which were intended to be. Later in the war, any bigger naval operation in the Adriatic was impossible due to enemy mines and submarines. Click to enlarge The four ships were in strategic reserve, and were leaving Pula only during target practice. Time to relax now, been working on this since 10-11 this morning/noon. A general layout of Tegetthoff class battleships. Box Artwork for forthcoming kit of the Trumpeter 1/350 Kit of Viribus Unitus. Just as with the Radetzky, the three drawings I have of this class has had its paint scheme overhauled to better reflect their actual real life appearance based upon colorized images from WW1. Named for Austrian Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, the class was composed of SMS Viribus Unitis, SMS Tegetthoff, SMS Prinz Eugen, and SMS Szent Istvn. Not only because the troubled history of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and its successor states (Ships designed by Vienna and the various shipyards of Croatia and parts of nowadays Italy, Armour produced by Vitkovice in Silesia and Main guns produced and developed by Skoda in Bohemia (today Czech Republic), while engines and smaller calibre guns produced by Ganz-Danubius, Budapest, Hungary) in the past 100 years, but the documents of the ships might ended up in various parts of the old Monarch due to their contribution of the development and construction of the ships. SMS Tegetthoff lower-alpha 1 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. The Tegetthoff class was a class of four dreadnought battleships built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy. While the Ersatz Monarch class battleships is mostly likely the most well-known never-were project of the Austro-Hungarian Navy (Kaiserlich und Königlich Kriegsmarine), the history of the class and the other design variants considered are rather difficult to get knowledge of.
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