With the improvements on the fi re control equipment, we deal not here because this topic is discussed in detail in the last chapter of this book. Also, during the war Viribus Unitis, Tegetthoff and Prinz Eugen were armed with four 7 cm/50 AA guns224 which were mounted on the roofs of the superimposed gun turrets.
During the war the metal lids of the turret gunports were replaced with blast bags. As mentioned previously, the fi rst two units of the class originally had no couplers in their gun turrets these were added in 1913/1914. Th is was done because German experiences of the Battle of Jutland/Skagerrak showed that a hit on the net could detach it which posed a threat to the screws. In 1917, torpedo nets and their booms were removed from the STT built units of the class. Th e fourth member, the Szent István, was commissioned without torpedo nets, because after the outbreak of the war it was now impossible to import torpedo nets from Britain. Th ese ships were not perfectly identical as there were minor diff erences between them, for example, in the form of the large air vent of the machinery room or in the form of the caps of the boat cranes.223 Th e fi rst three units of the Tegetthoff class originally had torpedo nets imported from Britain. Th e Trieste built sisters had several modifi cations during their career, but these were only minor improvements.
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