First saw action during the Bombardment of Ancona following Italy's declaration of war on Austria-Hungary in May 1915, but saw little combat for the rest of the war due to the Otranto Barrage, which prohibited the Austro-Hungarian Navy from leaving the Adriatic Sea. Tegetthoff was a member of the 1st Battleship Division of the Austro-Hungarian Navy at the beginning of the war alongside the other ships of her class, and was stationed out of the Austro-Hungarian naval base at Pola. Constructed shortly before World War I, she was built at the Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino shipyard in Trieste, where she was laid down in September 1910 and launched in March 1912. The ship was armed with a main battery of twelve 30.5 cm (12.0 in) guns in four triple turrets. Tegetthoff was named for the 19th-century Austrian Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, most notable for defeating the Italian Regia Marina at the Battle of Lissa in 1866. SMS Tegetthoff ( His Majesty's Ship Tegetthoff) was the second of four Tegetthoff-class dreadnought battleships built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy. Turrets: 60 to 280 millimetres (2 to 11 in).Handed over to the Allied powers on 10 November 1918Ĭeded to Italy under the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye in 1920, broken up at La Spezia between 19 Transferred to State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs on 31 October 1918
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