by Ingo Beims
1/250 SMS Tegetthoff (GPM)
This is my build of a model of the Austro-Hungarian Dreadnought SMS Tegetthoff.
As a card model I am pleased with it-it certainly was a very challenging construction.
Built at Trieste
Launched 21 March 1912
Commissioned 14 .July 1913
Displacement 21,730 tonnes
Loa 152 m
Beam 27,3 m
Top speed 20 knots
Armament 12 x 12 in , 12 x 6 in , 18 x 3in QF 2 x TT
Crew 1087
The History of the ship is a short story.
On May 24 together with her sisterships SMS Viribus Unitis and SMS Prinz Euegen she bombarded the Italian coastal town of Ancona.
Thereafter she only steamed out of Trieste for training manoeuvres.
At the end of the World War 1 she was ceded to Italy and sailed for Venice on 25 March 1919.
She lay there unused without function or purpose until 1923 and was scrapped at La Spezia during the course of 1924-25.
