![]() Stavba probíhala krátce před první světovou válkou v loděnici Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino v Terstu a dokončena byla v březnu 1912. Loď byla vyzbrojena dvanácti děly ráže 305 mm (12 palců) ve čtyřech věžích po třech. Přestože ze všech dreadnoughtů této třídy byl jako první dokončený SMS Viribus Unitis, kýl Tegetthoffu byl založen dříve a proto je po něm označena celá tato třída. Jméno dostala podle rakouského admirála Wilhelma von Tegetthoff, který se nejvíce proslavil porážkou italského námořnictva v bitvě u Visu roku 1866. SMS Tegetthoff byla druhou ze čtyř bitevních lodí stejnojmenné třídy postavených pro rakousko-uherské námořnictvo.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). 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. 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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