![]() ![]() All four turrets were put in a straight line, one after another, and two of them were raised over the lower two, thus enabling them to fire over the lower turrets. The installation of triple turrets on the new imperial vessels was solved better than on the Italian ships, as it was a combination of the American and Italian ideas. The quick change of plans was possible because the company Škoda in Plzen was already working on a triple turret project, for Russian buyers. After his retirement in 1907, he continued working as a consultant at STT shipyard in Trieste, where he began making several projects of 20 - 25, 000 ton ships armed with 8, 10 or 12 305 mm guns, and a number of 150 - 190 mm guns in twin turrets.Ī drawing showing the armour and the guns on the Tegetthoff class battleships.Īfter the official release of the information about the Italian dreadnought RN Dante Alighieri, the last Austro-Hungarian project was changed into a battleship armed with 12 guns of the main caliber (305 mm) in four turrets. Siegfried Popper, considered these projects too weak. The former chief constructor of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, ing. The first projects of the Navy - technical Committee in Pula comprised ships armed with 305 mm guns. The Austrian commander of the fleet, admiral Rudolf Montecuccoli Polinago, had on February 20th 1908, during the meeting of parliament representatives, announced the building of battleships of 18 - 19, 000 tons of displacement. Therefore, the news published in January 1908 in the German navy magazine "Marine Rundschau", saying that the keel of the first Italian dreadnought battleship was about to be laid resulted in a spontaneous Austro-Hungarian reaction. Austria and Italy, however, could not forget their mutual rivalry, especially seen during the war in 1866, when Austrian army defeated Italian army several times and when the Austrian fleet defeated Italian fleet in the battle of Vis (Lissa) on July 20th 1866. At the beginning of 20th century, the allied Central powers (Austro-Hungary, Italy and Germany) made a contract about fighting together against possible mutual enemies (Great Britain, France and Russia - united in the Entente). ![]()
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