Sinking of the Austrian Battleship SMS Szent István 1918 WWI film
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- Опубликовано: 25 мар 2017
- This film shows the capsize of the SMS Szent István in 1918. The Austro-Hungarian battleship had been intercepted by two Italian MAS boats and subsequently sank. Most of the ships crew managed to escape due to the Austrian navy's mandate that all of its sailors be taught to swim, which was actually a bit unusual for navies of that era. The film itself was taken by Austrian naval personnel from the SMS Tegetthoff which was nearby.
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Also my great-grandpa served on this ship as AA gunner. I had goosebumps when I saw this video for the first time. Fortunately, he knew how to swim and survived. Grandpa had his insignia, papers ordering him to join the Austro-Hungarian army and a photo being on the deck with the rest of AA crew, unfortunately all got lost when grandpa died. What a pity.
All sailors in the Navy of Austria-Hungary were required to learn how to swim.
@@cefloach9019 not a bad idea, right?
@@woj5924 At that time, it was believed that a quick death by drowning was better than dying of hypothermia.
@@spirz4557 is that really so?
@@woj5924 Yes.
My Great Grandfather was on this boat. When it was sinking he jumped. We still have original picture of the boat in living room. Sorry for my English. Im from czech republic. My Great Grandfather was from Austria Hungury and he lived in Czechoslovakia to his dead.
Hi! My Grandfather's brother was on the boat too. Survived, but committed suicide in mid 1920s. Greetings from Hungary!
My great grandfather was on this ship as well. He was at the stern when they tried to balance the ship and then they jumped but only after they got the order from the captain!
We also have a big photo of a sinking ship in a living room in our family house.
10th June 2018 marks 100th anniversary of the sinking of the ship!
My great-great-uncle (I think that's the right number of greats) was involved in it's designing and actually told the navy that the guns they wanted were to big for the ship and that it would capsize because they'd make it top heavy.
I would have jumped and swam too. If the skipper wanted to go down with his ship, then that would be his choice. I hope all of the crew got topside when it became obvious the vessel was going to capsize.
For all their great bulk and armoured protection (or possibly because of it), battleships quickly became unstable death-traps after a few torpedo hits in critical parts of their hulls.
Is the wreck within reach of scuba divers?
The torpedo boat which sank her (MAS 15) today is preserved at the Sacrario delle bandire (shrine of the flags) which is inside the Vittorialle in Rome and has been perfectly preserved and is free to see by the public.
I've seen that ship. Did not know about its history - impressive.
We should be grateful that we didn't go through what our previous generations had to go through! I'm sure most young men today wouldn't join in!
My great grandfather who was at the time 27 years old served on this ship as a stoker (rank: first class sailor) when the torpedo stuck the target. Later the crew assembled on the deck to use their weight as a counterbalance, however, this didn't help much, they even turned the cannons. He saved himself by swimming to another ship. The sailors who jumped before the order was given, were shot in the sea from Szent István and the nearby ships. After the disaster my great grandfather was latter transfered to SMS Viribus Unitis where few months latter he experienced similar destiny in Pula/Pola. He died as old man in 1970.
Dear Matej, there are several eyewitness records from the sinking of the SMS Szent István, none of them mentions shooting of survivors. There are also two film reels from 2 different angels, but at no time is the shooting of survivors visible. This claim is contradictory to the rules of the Austro-Hungarian navy (in fact, any WW1 navy), and also common sense. To put it politely, your comment is a piece of fiction!
Yes that 'shooting' probably is fiction
Did the ship hit a mine, torpedoed or shot by other ships?
@@steffeness1 it was hit by one or max 2 torpedoo shot by Italian powerboat of Decima Flottiglia MAS that was a boat of 20 tons and from 4 to 10 men over Durring WW1 Italian Navy sunk 3 Austrian Battleships the Wien, the Viribus Unitis and the Saint Stephen...
@@Benito-Musolesi SMS Wien was struck by two torpedoes while was at anchor in Trieste harbor.
SMS Viribus Unitis was sunk by Italian diversion (with magnetic mine) the DAY AFTER the end of WW1 while was at anchor in Pula harbor. Anchors from SMS Viribus Unitis are today in Roma in front of Ministry of defence
Props to the few guys who managed to ride the capsize round and end up stood on the upturned hull.
Until the ship went below and the force sucked them all underwater... best to swim away as fast you can in that situation.
@@JonathanWJ most of the time sinking ships have very little suction
I read that the loss of life was way lower than expected because a requirement in this Navy is that all seamen know how to swim
Yep and also the slow sinking of the ship helped, as well as the warmer waters and a fellow ship standing nearby ready to pick up survivors.
Quite honestly seems like common sense doesn't it? If you're going to be on a ship might help to know how to swim in case you end up wet.
@@sorrenblitz805 It was quite rare for sailors to know how to swim at that time.
The sinking of this battleship is what led to the requirement in pretty much all navies that battleships must always have destroyer/frigate escorts at all times. The only navy that didn't do this was the Nazi German Kriegsmarine, and that was because they didn't have long-endurance long-range destroyer designs which could be deployed to escort battleships like Bismarck or Graf Spee for ocean spanning merchant fleet convoy raiding. Scharnhorst had destroyer escort, but made the mistake of sending off her escort to scout for the merchant conveys they were hunting, and then she was cornered by Duke of York before they could return.
Hitler said that german are bad soldiers
This ship was heavily escorted by destroyers and cruisers too
Only battleship filmed sinking during the war
This is the second battleship from WW1 filmed sinking I watched tonight.
Little toads HMS Barham
HMS Audacious from WW1
HMS Barham was in 1941, and WW2, not WW1, as referred to...
Scott Coleman
True how ever still shots . Good ones . There are some excellent videos about this incident which hit a mine not a torpedo . The common claim is that more ships were the victims of mines than anything else
To steal a line from the old Firesign Theater group: "He's no fun he fell right over!" Sinking is one thing, but when a grand ship like this capsizes it seems so undignified!
An ole timey narrator narrating dozens of sailors dying in a war like its a sports game is the most early-20th century thing I've ever seen
My Grandpa's uncle was a survivor of this!
They all seem quite relaxed on that sinking ship, until it flips over.
Because it wasnt sinking. It was under tow for some two hours when ut was concluded that the pumpa would not be sufficient to keep it afloat until it reached port and efforts to keep it afloat ceased.
@@fritzbauer6064 Actually until the 20th century Croats made up 50% of AH navy and during the war Croats made up 1/3 of the navy.
@@yoyohehe2034 he said it himself, Cisleithenia includes Bohemia and Galicia not just Austria
Austria Hungarians:
"nooooo, you cant sink our 400000000 ton battleship it took 20 years to make and we used up 70 percent of our resources into it"
Italians: *"haha torpedo go brrrrr"*
My Great Grandfather and his brother deserted from the Austro-Hungarian Navy in 1912 by jumping off their ship in NY Harbor and swimming to Manhattan. They made a good choice.
The Austo-Hungarian navy actually suffered relatively few casualties during the war compared with the British and German navies. The Austro-Hungarians decided very early on in the war to keep their fleet largely close to its home ports, so that it would remain a threat in the mediterranian and force the French (and later the Italian) Navy to stay in the Mediterranian Sea to keep a check on it (this strategy is called "Fleet in Being") as such, the bulk of the Austrian navy during the war. All the naval battles fought in the Adiratic involved only light Austrian naval units like destroyers, torpedo boats, and small cruisers.
cowards
It is treason then.
Did they enlist later in the US navy for WW1?
@Teddles Peddles You do know you are a a hole don't you ? By the way what service did you serve in ?
This battleship and the class it was from were the first warships to have turrets equipped with three cannons instead of two.
Thats wrong, the Italian battleship Dante Alighieri was one year before the Tegetthoff class build and had allso three cannons in each turret.
Durring this attack the motor boat of Italian Navy was faced to 2 battle ships and 7 austrian navy ships...
Interesting that battleships were still built when it was shown how easy they could be sunk with a torpedo from small boats or even just frogmen - and later plane.
Dreadnought-era of battleship building lasted approx 40 years, Szent was commissioned on year 9 of that…
Keep in mind, everyone in WWII ended up putting new battleships in service after they were outright obsolete (strategically).
@@bkjeong4302 I’m not an admiral of course, but it always seemed weird to me how resistant Many Naval officers were to building carriers. The benefits seem obvious.
I read they had maintained the list of the ship between 7-10 degrees. You would think they would have launched the lifeboats "just in case" she sank. They could always recover them later. In my opinion, if there was no reason not to launch the lifeboats except for the Captain's pride, any Sailor not killed from the initial attack was totally the Captain's fault.
89 sailors out of 1094 died. Can't really talk about a Captain's mistake with casualty numbers like that.
Warships didn’t have lifeboats; there were cutters for going from ship-to-shore but they required a lot of time and effort to launch. In addition, Szent István don’t even have enough electrical power to run her pumps due to the boiler rooms flooding. This meant that they couldn’t have been able to launch the boats if they wanted to as they wouldn’t have been able to power the cranes
@@sirboomsalot4902 Maybe you have different information but I doubt cranes at that time were automated - a handcrank does the job just fine.
Indy brought me here
This ship had 12 boilers in 2 boiler rooms, of which both boiler rooms took a torpedo... Ouch.
If they had followed now pretty much the standard of having no more than 2 boilers to a boiler room, then the increased compartmentalization probably would have saved the ship.
This ship was doomed on the drawing board, even if it had taken shells instead of torpedos...
It didnt take a torpedo to the boiler room, the bulkhead doors simply wernt closed in time, and one of them flooded.
And the ship was plenty compartmentalized. From what I remember from the blueprints it had 16 sealable compartments, plus its torpedo bulges were also filled with air.
Why it sunk was twofold. It was too small for its armament (153 metersfor a dozen twelve inch 45 caliber guns? making it top heavy, thats why it flipped over, and its torpedo bulge was too small, which lead to flooding in the first place.
As for it being easyto sink, well one of them was used by france as target practice, and they had to sink it with scuttlig charges because their battleship guns couldnt.
+MeMad Max
Compromised design, take a look on what insanity the Lexington's design process at one time had (and again contemplated in the South Dakota's in 1939!): boilers rooms under water AND another set above the armour deck ( warshipprojects.com/2017/03/20/washington-cherry-trees-i-part-2/) just in able to get it all fit in one hull. while the KuK didn't try to build excessively fast ships, they still had to work with coal and -triple-expansion engines- , bringing in all sorts of interesting design challenges to solve. Horrible workmanship didn't help either though.
Anti-torpedo systems really comes at the expense of usable hull-width, which in turn means you or have to squeeze your propulsion system or make your hull longer at the expense of extra weight for a longer citadel, compromise on hull strength because your heavy armament is put on the outer sides where there is no buoyancy generated AND you have lots of machinery spaces at the places you would like to have extra bulkheads to generate the structural strength where you need it most.
Dawm. We need a new ship!
Thanks to leggend of MAS' s men
this ship has the honor to came in the History....
ruclips.net/video/BmbM5B4NjxY/видео.html
The troupe on the Tegetthoff was supposed to film the glorious victory over the italo-british forces blocking the Otranto Channel. Ironically, those guys just filmed one of their own sinking ships for the first time in history.
We should be grateful that we didn't go through what our previous generations had to go through! I'm sure most young men today wouldn't join in!
My Slovene Granfather served in the Austrian Navy, Ferdinad Max @ Boka Kotorska
*Angry Király and Kaiser noises*
1:33 Wie das Wasser-Luftgemisch aus dem Torpedoleck austritt.
The landlubbers thought that the attack came from a sub and thus Tegetthoff started zigzagging and attempted the tow only 80minutes later, to no avail, by that time too late. Under that 80 minutes Szent Istvan tried to limp into shallow water, using it`s own propulsion, until the power was cut off due to the engine room flooding.
Amazing that a formation can cruise with all eyes so shut, that they fail to see a MTB - attack in a broad daylight.
This is unepic
Savoia Savoia,bel grido d'amore !
One thing is very interesting,in this video ship rolled suddenly,but one thing makes me wonder ,people are standing on keel and bilge keel while the ship is balancing to rest on keel up,or video have some delays so people after capsizing climbed up??
Roll on thy deep and dark blue ocean roll. Ten thousand fleets sweeps over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin his control stops at the shore...
Italian MAS Commander.....Luigi Rizzo.
why would you put up banners blocking the last 20 seconds? Christ!!
TGW brought me here
Of the 1087 crew, 89 sailors died
This ship seems to have no railings on the side.
So....nobody decided to lower the motor launch? Camera passes it by at 0:38
When the ship was hit, it was not thought to be damaged fatally, and thus it was taken under tow by another battleship which tried to tow it towards port. The vast majority of the crew on the Szent Istvan survived, only 89 of her 1094 died, and some of those during the torpedo attacks on the ship and not in the sinking itself. The high survival rate was in part due to the fact that swimming lessons were a mandatory part of Austro-Hungarian basic training for naval recruits, which surprisingly some other navies at the time did not require.
Too busy doing damage control, usually you only abandon ship once it’s absolutely certain the ship can’t be kept afloat
It's scuba attraction today in Croatia .
10 Italian sailor over a speedboat of 20 tons sunk a battleship of 25000 tons and 500 sailors...
Durring WW1 Italian Navy men of FLOTIGLIA MAS sunk 3 Austrian Battleships the Wien, the Viribus Unitis and the Saint Stephen, the only battleships sunk in WW1
First of all the Wien was a ship of the line not a real battleship. The Viribus Unitis and the Szent Istvan were by far not the only battleships sunk in WW1. And why do you comment under every video about the Szent Istvan? You should keep your patriotism in check or should i remind you of the battle of lissa?
@@manueleberharter7052
Savages....
When Roma 2000 years ago, was already an empire and a town of more than 1 milion of citizen, your ancestors still live over trees and inside holes without scripture...
Caino was austrian....
Like uncle Adolf, opa Fritzl and doktor Menghele...
In theory the Viribus Unitis wasn't anymore austian but of the kingdom of criats Slovenes and serbs
@@alessandroboccalatte8120 True and I think she was renamed to "Jugoslavija"
@@manueleberharter7052
Artiglieria
4 cannoni da 240 mm
6 cannoni da 150 mm
17 cannoni da 47 mm
Siluri 2 tubi lanciasiluri da 450 mm
ask to your mom how many Italian torpedoes has keep in her life
Dad gum! He missed the money shot of it capsizing!
Who would win a giant battleship armed with massive guns or a small boat with two torpedos
Obviously a small Italian boat!
A small boat with torpedoes is actually a challenge for battleships to deal with (the guns can’t fire frequently enough to guarantee a hit).
Given that the attack happened at night; (shortly before dawn?), it was fairly easy for the two smal boats sneak past the escorts right into the heart of the entire Fleet. + Considering how Torpedos where are fairly new weapon, ant therefore Torpedoprotection was in its Infancy... One could argue that the entire Attack was a big gamble by the Italians and it happened to turn out in their favor.
@@mathiash.1379 It wasn't a gamble; Miklós Horthy before taking command of the k.u.k. Kriegsmarine, had already attacked 4 times the barrier of the Otranto channel, it was therefore very likely that the new commander intended to give a signal of change in the conduct of the war and that the Otranto channel, well known to him, was part of his plans . For this reason the Italian commander Thaon di Revel had placed submarines lurking in front of Pola, Durres and the Faresina canal. he had also intensified the nocturnal patrols of the Dalmatian coast, (yes, as you wrote, it is easy for small boats to sneak between the stocks of the fleet at night, but it is equally true that large ship formations can go unnoticed with favor of darkness).
Frogman were even better
It’s got to be an im bare ass ment a vaunted capital ship sunk by a glorified cabin cruiser that could be blown out of the water with impunity.
Imagine getting sunk by a naval surgeon and an engineer
Must've been terrifying to stand on the deck not allowed to leave. What happened to those men?
Many survived due to the fact that the Austro-Hungarian Navy taught their sailors how to swim in boot camp, apparently.
I think I would have nightmares for the rest of my life
There where well over 1100 men onboard, only 89 died.
89 dead out of 1094.
To Fritz Bauer....i dont know German. Anything that can be hoisted on a ship is a boat except submarines by tradition they are always called boat reguardless of nation.
Well Mr Bauer....subs ate traditionally called boats because in the early 1900s they wrte almost that small. The nickname stuck and subs always are called boats! Ships are different because they are usually larger and usually only navy carrier aircrew call it a boat out of spite. Hope rhat answers you. Didnt mean to insult your fine language i just didnt understand!
@@fritzbauer6064 thank you for writing back. I do not mind the language barrier but if your uncomfortable with that i understand. I sstill wish to be friends if you change your mind. The very best to you and your family!
1:14 What is going on with that smoke? Is it going the wrong way?
Why didn't they put the life boats in .
My greatest grampa served of the ship he was in the frant gun
Poor souls.
This video skips much of the ship’s turn. Why would anyone alter the film. They showed it on History Channel for pete’s sake
Try to find the uncut footage anywhere online...it is totally unavailable - not just on RUclips, but anywhere at all. After over 100 years, just who has made the decision for us that absolutely nobody can see it anymore?
Why do all the ww2/1 ships cap size ?
Because those warships were ususally pretty top heavy,they have turrets and stuff you know...so when they started flooding they were more likely to capsize
1918 newsreel?
It is a SHIP not a boat!
Boat
The battleship faced to motorboat
The Captain's delayed order to abandon ship killed 89 crewmen, but he (of course) survived.
Austro-Hungarian navy were lead by Slovenian admirals. German minority member from Maribor, Wilhelm fon Tegethoff and Anton Haus from Tolmin.
I undestan why austrians always made lose the wars to Germany
were slut-venian....
OOO! What a beautiful battleship! Awesome job by the Italian Motor torpedo boats sinking her
And that kids is why you dont skimp on your torpedo bulges.
Though truth be told the Tegetthoff class had better torpedo protection than usual for ships of the era.
all have seen....
it was this specific ship that didn't, because it was built by the hungarian industry, since all production had to be 66.5% austrian industry and 33.5% hungarian one, the designs had to be changed so the weaker hungarian industry could handle it, and it is impressive that even then it could do so.
89 sailors died. Maybe they should have tried launching the lifeboats instead of milling around on the deck.
They thought that they could use their weight as a counterbalance after trying to plug the holes with collision mats and trying to pump out the water failed.
@@fredherbert7920 I know what they were trying to do. All the crew put together probable weight about 70 tons. The ship weighed 20,000+ tons. Even if they all did stand on one side, which they didn't appear to be doing in a disciplined way judging by the amount of milling around going on, they would never be able to budge it. Especially as it was adding more weight as the water entered the hull. They should have just launched the lifeboats and let the ship go.
@MEs61 Yeah. That's probably true. Captain must have been a idiot.
@@Makeyourselfbig or dead
Most of that 89 sailors tried to stop the waterflow(sinking). And some of them died during rescue.
Absolutely No Captain.
1:13 All Hands, Man Your Stations.
Thats my favourite ship and my country
God did not want them fighting battles!!!
The spirit of habsburg sea Has Been sunk, just like their empire
Eja eja, Alalà!
this ship sank like german battleship bismarck
Well, not the same; Bismarck at least got the opportunity to actually fight a battle against enemy ships. Szent István was sunk before he got his first real combat. :/
Also, fairly sure that Bismarck took a lot longer to die (despite being a glass cannon by WWII standards)
Epic victory by the Italian navy....
manco era una battaglia, vittoria non è un termine adatto.
@@Venetianmappingandanimations sì che vittoria è un termine adatto
These warships didn't go to Black sea. The end of bad
I live in Croatia and I was at an island close to the sinking of this ship
Could you see it sink?
This was during WWI, of course he didn't see it sink
Then he couldn’t have been close.
The remains of the sunken ship is nearby a Croatian island. Idk which island, but he probably mean't the island close to the sunken remains of the Szent István.
nice... so what? noone gives a damn
Battleship is a ship class, not synonymous for “war ship”
This is a heavy cruiser, maybe a Battlecruiser for its armament and tonnage.
However 3x 4 turrets with 12” or so cannons are hardly anything more.
Its class should had 1k to 1,250 crew, or so… and the officers not ordering Abandon Ship makes them criminals against humanity.
Even the turrets position was trying to fight the ship capsizing. Ineptitude or evilness equates more or less to the same crime of war.
Germany was the good nation, if any… and the villains were the Brits and their French puppets.
You put that as if 12 12inch turrets isnt a big armament? I think the people who classified the ship knew plenty more than you do
I'm hungarian.
is your mom in the porno industry?
This is like when David killed Goliath.
a motor boat of 20 tons with 5 men and 2 torpedos facendo with a battleship of 25000 tons 500 men
12 cannons 305 mm
2 cannons of 75mm
18 cannons of 70mm
2 machine gun of 45mm
4 torpedo launcer ...
Wait
Austrian battleship?
Lol?
FreshnessForDays yeah, she was a battleship of the Austro-Hungarian navy during the first world war
Builded by Hungarian industry.
Sunk by the Italian Navy? I'm gonna have to wow that... I've got to do some reading about this.
An italiab Torpedo boat attacked it at night
Durring the WW1 Italian Decima MAS sunk 3 Austrian battleships, the Wien, the Viribus Unitis and the Saint Stephen...
@@limmyk4943 in the morfina, the men of Decima MAS discovered the battleship thanks it's smoke
another doco shows this as the sinking of the BLUCHER in WW1
217rnswr Lol Blucher sunk in WW2
Daniel MP The armoured cruiser Blücher was sunk during the Battle of Dogger Bank on 24 January 1916. Lol? Get the right ship!
Terry Shulky What? Blucher was sunk on 9th of April 1940 in Norway
Daniel MP Yes, the heavy cruiser Blucher was sunk in Oslo Fjord on 9th April 1940 but the armoured cruiser Blucher was sunk during the battle of the Dogger Bank on 24 January 1916. Hint: they are NOT the same ship!
Terry Shulky Shit I didnt know there were two bluchers
*Austro-Hungarian battleship*
The video shows well that battleships were outdated technology. But in WW2 the great powers built battleships again. The Germans also quickly lost their battleships. Only then did they understand that submarines were the right weapon. Lots of wasted human lives.
Guns made by Skoda.
Simply Better.
If Austria is a landlocked country why does it have a battleship...?
The Russians have a Ministry of Justice!
Because it became land locked only AFTER WW1, when all the ethnic groups within the empire where given their independence. This are the Borders of Austria-Hungary before WW1: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Austria1914physical.jpg
@@dunruden9720 But they're not land-locked.
@@tristanwilkinson9516 How is that relevant?
The then Austrian Empire and Kingdom of Hungary were united and had coastal territory that included Trieste, Pula, Fiume/RIjeka, and the Dalmatian coast.
Hungary built 34.4% of the ships, the ship designs were altered to use different components, and even tho these ships proved to be less reliable than the Austrian ones, even due to all of these changes the ships built in Hungary weren't far behind the benchmarks of the Austrian ones. And all Austro-Hungarian navy ships were less up to date than the British and other bigger navies. And yes Croatia was Hungary too since the Croatians choose the Hungarian King as their king in 1102. And neither of these nations had any problems with each other or were oppressed until the Habsburgs arrived and used the divide and conquer politics for hundreds of years and planted the seeds of division and racial hatred that started to flourish (not as vividly as the propaganda depicts it) later on from 1849 and onwards. And despite the friendly and beneficial past Croatia too owns Hungarian territories and indigenous population today that they decided to keep from the Yugoslavian territories.
Hungary is facendo on sea?
is this because austria lose the war...
Italians steel men over a wood ship sunk austrian wood men over a steel ship
I'm not even Austrian or a great fan of them, but your hatred against Austrians is disgusting. I have read your other comments too. Austrian wood men? It shows how well-read you are. It was only a part of the sailors who were Austrians there. Some people swam back to save the flags of the ship and an officer to help save his men. They all went down with the ship. The only cowards were those who jumped off before the order to leave. I could also insult your people if I wanted to, but no peoples should be treated like that, independently from everything. I suggest you to think about this and change for the better.
No steel men nor any of your bs , the torpedo boat crew members didn't know there was a seize fire and the battleship crew know that so they didn't fire a single shell , be real a 3×4 triple 380 mm guns battleship against a torpedo boat , seriously would sinks it befor even they enter the torpedo boat rang , non steel men nor wooden boats BS You're talking about .
@@p.b.5107 You are ignorant. I used the same phrase said by a hight Austrian officer decades earlier. If you don't know, shut up and study.
The millions of deaths caused by the Germans and Austrians are in history. Infants massacred or used as targets by German soldiers are also on utube...
@@abdelmalekmetidji those miserable Austrians have entered history thanks to the legendary ''FLOTIGLIA MAS''
They just have to say thank you.
The actions of the best and most glorious group of Navy Stormtroopers of the world and of all time ''FLOTTIGLIA MAS'', are legend.
not just the sinking of dozens of boats during WW1.
After the victorious raid on Trieste in December 1917, in which the MAS 9 and 13, led respectively by Luigi Rizzo and Andrea Ferrarini, had sunk the Austro-Hungarian battleship Wien
During WW2 the ''FLOTIGLIA MAS'' sank the heavy cruiser HMS YORK and the battleships HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH and HMS VALLIANT in the port of Alexandria in Egypt
Raid on Alexandria (1941)
@@Benito-Musolesi How will I know if you don't say the name of the officer, or where this is documented? Also this isn't the only thing you say, as I wrote it.
Are all Germans and Austrians bad for this? You just seem to hate them for some reason, but the millions they killed were killed by the kind of people who talk trash like you do. Ask old Benito what was the role of the noble Italians on the side of those filty Germans...
And you liking your own comment is pathetic.
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Fiddy 007 roblox Igen, az én barátnő magyar ;)
the testicles are the major time 2...
austrian titanic
Hungarian titanic
Nőt austrian eh this ship is a Hungarian
SMS Szent Istvan was a unit of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, one of the Tegetthoff class. She was built in Hungary yes, but Hungary was then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Yes it is. In this battleship class were build 4 Pcs. This one by Hungaria. Construction was separate in Rijeka and this ship was the worst piece in this class. Practicaly everything was lower class quality oposite to the rest of class. Only guns were same. From Skoda company. St. Istvan was incredible faulty.
He was built in Croatia, which was part of AH Empire too...Hungary havent any see than Balaton swamp....
Nor austrian, nor hungarian: Austro-hungarian.
no this ship was founded by Hungary... This class has 4 units and the 4th was this ship founded and build by hungarians in croatia... it was tha worst ship in its class...
Hungarian are not seaman them lead the ship
true. that is why most of the crew was croatian. Though czech and austrian too. Also sea free people. :-)
they were largely anti-air and machinegun crews in the navy. and there was navy training, so having previous experience is certainly a + but on a battleship it does not amount to much
Italy as always changing sides ! :)
say austrian germans... that were allied with russian in ww2.......
So?
@@danih487 ehhh?
Fk the commander..sht sinking fk it I'm out...no layalty with death...this in a way symbolised the down fall of the empire...powerful people lived while the weak and poor died...
The EU is sinking in the same manner. :-o
the war ended italy as usual cowrdly attacked and sunk the battleship
That ship was sunk in war. The viribus unitis was sanked the last day of the war, but the frogmen didn't know it. They didn't even know it was passed to Yugoslavia by Austria (for avoid to be captured by the allieds. But the allieds didn't care that, and claimed the surviving ships after the peace treaty, that was both sanked in live fire tests after the war I guess one in Italy and one in france.). But the sant istvan was sanked in a war action, at the first mission, trying to break trough the Italian British blockade of otranto channel she was caught by the Italian torpedo boats that sanked it. The Austrian ships fired back too, and a torpedo boat stalked the motor boats for sometime before they dropped some depth charges that forced the escort to turn, letting them escape. Rizzo, the skipper of the motor boat sanked 1 Austrian battleship and a coastal defense battleship, the wien, forcing the Trieste or pola harbors I don't remember, so have respect of a decorated sailor, maybe the most successful motor torpedo boat commander of history. BUT ALSO IF THE FROGMEN HAD NEWS ABOUT THE PASSAGE OF THE V. U. TO YUGOSLAVIA, MAYBE THEY WOULD HAVE SUSPENDED THE ACTION, BUT THE SHIP WAS ANYCASE GIVED TO THE ALLIEDS AS WAR PRIZE. THEY COULDN'T ALLOW THE FORMER ENEMY BATTLE FLEET TO SURVIVE.
now try to say this without crying...
As usual, we have to read a stupid comment, written by a ignorant donkey with no knowledge of real historical events and based on ridiculous clichés. Indeed, Italian frogmen were the best elite troops during WWI and WWII. Cowardly my ass honey, you need big balls in your paints to do what they did. Shut up and go learning history, little brainwashed moron.
Not this one. You're thinking of her sister ship the Viribus Unitis.
Moron, this ship was sunk in June 1918, the war ended November 1918.
Austrian navy was destroid by Swiss Navy...
ruclips.net/video/BmbM5B4NjxY/видео.html
MEN OF STEEL OVER A WOOD SHIP FACED AT austrian men OF WOOD OVER A STEEL SHIP.....
Men of wood over a steel ship were destroied by Men of Steel over a wooden ship...
Austro-Hungarian battleship