The SMS Viribus Unitis (With United Forces) was launched on this day on June 24, 1911, from the port city of Trieste in Austria-Hungary, now part of Italy. It was the the first of the dreadnoughts built for the Austria-Hungarian Navy. Though it saw little action because of coal shortages, it did participate in maneuvers to assist German ships and U-boats evade Allied forces. It was destroyed near the end of the war by Italians who did not know that the ship had been surrendered to the state to be known after the war as Yugoslavia.
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