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Viribus Unitas

Post by shipstamps » Mon Dec 01, 2008 4:47 pm


In 1915 Austria issued a 20 heller value depicting the battleship Viribus Unitis, which was built by the Stabilimento Tecnico, of Trieste. She was laid down on July 23, 1910, launched on June 24, 1911, and commissioned on October 6, 1912. Her cost was £2,500,000. Her displacement was 20,000 tons, designed s.h.p. 25,000, dimensions 495ft. x 891/2ft. x 27ft.; Speed 21.2 knots, main armament 12 12in. and 12 5.9in. guns, and complement 1,000. The Viribus Unitis was sunk by a fixed torpedo in Pola harbour by the Italian c.m.b. Locusta on the night of October 31-November 1, 1918.
SG245 Sea Breezes 10/51

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