SMS Tegetthoff (1878)

Tegetthoff in her original configuration
Class overview
Preceded byKaiser Max class
Succeeded byKronprinz Erzherzog Rudolf
History
Austria-Hungary
NameSMS Tegetthoff
NamesakeWilhelm von Tegetthoff
BuilderStabilimento Tecnico Triestino, Trieste
Laid down1 April 1876
Launched15 October 1878
Completed1881
CommissionedSeptember 1882
RenamedMars, 1912
ReclassifiedHarbor guard ship, 1906
Stricken1906
FateBroken up in Italy, 1920
General characteristics
TypeCentral-battery ironclad
Displacement7,390 long tons (7,510 t)
Length92.4 m (303 ft 2 in)
Beam19.1 m (62 ft 8 in)
Draft7.6 m (24 ft 11 in)
Installed power
Propulsion
Speed13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Range3,300 nmi (6,100 km; 3,800 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement525
Armament
  • 6 × 280 mm (11 in) Krupp breech-loading guns
  • 6 × 89 mm (3.5 in) guns
  • 2 × 70 mm (2.8 in) guns
  • 9 × 47 mm (1.9 in) guns
Armor

SMS Tegetthoff was an ironclad warship of the Austro-Hungarian Navy. She was built by the Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino shipyard in Trieste, between April 1876 and October 1881. She was armed with a main battery of six 28 cm (11 in) guns mounted in a central-battery. The ship had a limited career, and did not see action. In 1897, she was reduced to a guard ship in Pola, and in 1912 she was renamed Mars. She served as a training ship after 1917, and after the end of World War I, she was surrendered as a war prize to Italy, which sold her for scrapping in 1920.