As this obviously inflicted stability the ammunition load was reduced and in July exactly the same ship was presented with superimposed twins.Īpparently the Austro-Hungarian naval architects felt that such a stripped down design would not be well balanced and presented two enlarged alternative designs in January 1914, showing that more displacement was necessary to make up a well balanced dreadnought with the benefit of a speed increase of two knots. But soon Diesel was rejected against conventional mixed coal/oil burning boilers.Ĭaused by the strict weight limit the designers had to save every ton possible and therefore reduced the secondary artillery, omitted the aft conning tower and the mainmast and designed the heavy guns in triple turrets superimposed over the twins to better follow the curve of the hull.

The most remarkable fact was the desire for an alternative design for both Diesel and turbine propulsion. saving fuel weight, regarding the geo-strategic situation of the Adriatic Sea.

It was believed, nevertheless, that such a design could match contemporary opponents by cutting down the cruising radius, e.g. The displacement limit was caused by the need to fit the future ship (with half consumption supplies and full ammunition load) into the floating drydock No 1, which had a lifting power of 23.800 metric tons. This something special about the kuk Navy, while other nations did not use names for their projected ships but letters or numbers (like the more famous German H-Class being BB H, I, J, K in game as FDG or Russian Project 30 in game as Ognevoy-class destroyer), Austria-Hungary used the names from the ship class that is going to be replaced as first design/project name (see also Ersatz-Triglav Class as name for the Tatra class destroyer)Īustro-Hungarian naval authorities ordered on 3 June 1911 the preparatory designs to the following alternative particulars: Therefore this next class of battleships often is called the Ersatz Monarch Klasse, 'replacement Monarch class' Since long the Austrian Naval League (Österreichischer Flottenverein) had advertised that the Monarch class must be replaced. Very soon after this approval first ideas for the next class of battleships came up. On 2 March 1911 the mutual financial delegations of Austria-Hungary approved a big naval budget allowing the construction of the four dreadnoughts of the TEGETTHOFF-class, 3 scout cruisers and 6 modern turbine destroyers.

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