Download or read book The Habsburg Dreadnoughts (1909-1925): The Story of the Tegetthoff Class. written by Andrew South and published by Warships of the Great War. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Austria-Hungrian Imperial Navy was to build only 4 dreadnought, and lost 50% of them to the enemy action. The ship's were conceived by a myopic and deaf designer, and in an atmosphere of lies, pig-headless & shaky finances. The designs were flawed & the creations unreliable. They were to see no ship to ship action & were part of the force that bombarded the Italian city Ancona "barbarically". Of all the dreadnought built and conceived, none were like the Tegetthoffs. They may have seen little or no action, but their stories are jaw droppings & have been lost in the shadows of the bigger names, Warspite, Lutzow, Invincible, Dreadnought.... Drawing on Austria-Hungarian and English language sources I have compiled their stories and tried to make sense of the 4 brief years of service they saw. It's a tale often not told and I hope I have done it some justice.