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Sms Szent Istvn | olspan="2" align="center"| | | tyle="color: white; height: 30px; background:navy;"|Career | style="background:navy;align:right;"|K.u.k. Kriegsmarine Ensign | | rdered: | | | aid down: | 29 January 1912 | | aunched: | 17 January 1914 | | ommissioned: | 17 November 1915 | | ate: | Sunk 10 June 1918 | | olspan="2" style="color: white; height: 30px; background:navy;"|General Characteristics | | isplacement: | 20,000t standard | | ength: | 152m | | eam: | 27.9m | | raught: | 8.7m | | ropulsion: | 12 Babcock & Wilcox fitted with 4 AEG Curtis steam turbines, totalling 26400hp on 4 shafts | | peed: | 20.4kts | | ange: | 4,200nm at 10kts | | omplement: | 1087 | | rmament: | 12 x 12" (305 mm) guns in triple turrets
12 x 5.9" guns in single casemates
18 x 11 pdr guns in single mountings
4 x 21" torpedo tubes | | rmor: | 11 inch belt, barbettes, turrets and conning tower; 1.4 inch deck | SMS ''Szent Istvn was an Austro-Hungarian dreadnought battleship, the only one operated by the Hungarian part of the empire. Hungary got her battleship in return for agreeing to the immense funding of the Tegetthoff'' class and named her after Hungary's first Christian king, Szent Istvn (Saint Stephen). Szent Istvn was built at Fiume (the only large Hungarian shipyard) and was commissioned in 1915. This involved great expense, as the yard had hitherto only built fairly small vessels and therefore would have to be fitted out for the building of large ships. She differed from her three sister-ships in that she had a platform built around the fore funnel which extended from the bridge to the after funnel and on which several searchlights were installed. A further distinguishig feature was the modified ventilator trunk in front of the mainmast. She was the only ship of her class not to be fitted with torpedo nets. She spent most of her time in commission at her berth in Pula. She was hit by two torpedos launched from the Italian MAS-15 swift boat on the 10th June 1918 while on sortie out in the Adriatic and soon capsized. She sunk easily due to faults in the Tegetthoff class design (low tonnage displacement and high centre of gravity versus the tremendous weight of 12 x 12inch main artillery). There were only 89 dead as all sailors with SMS had to learn to swim before entering active service. She is immortalized along with HMS Barham as one of the only two battleships to have had their demise captured on film (the film was later used for raising money for the Red Cross). See Also External Links
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