Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino was a private shipbuilding company based in Trieste from the mid-19th to early 20th century, and the most important naval shipbuilding firm of the Austro-Hungarian Empir
SMS Viribus Unitis, a dreadnought built by STT for the Austro-Hungarian Navy in 1911
SMS Viribus Unitis
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SMS Viribus Unitis was an Austro-Hungarian dreadnought battleship, the first of the Tegetthoff class. "Viribus Unitis", meaning "With United Forces", was the personal motto of Emperor Franz Joseph I.
Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino
…Monarch class. In 1909 Rudolf Montecuccoli, chief of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, pressured STT (together with Škoda) to start work on two dreadnoughts, Viribus Unitis and Tegetthoff, even though approval of the budget for them was held up in the Austro-Hungarian Reichstag who was concerned about Italy and France…
Launch of Viribus Unitis in Trieste, 24 July 1910
A line drawing of Viribus Unitis, lead ship of the Tegetthoff class
Model of Viribus Unitis in the Museum of Military History, Vienna
Viribus Unitis in 1914