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SMS Szent István commissioned into the Austro-Hungarian Navy.
The Szent István, a new Dreadnought, was commissioned into the Austro-Hungarian Navy. Like most of these heavy vessels, it would it out the war in harbor, unable to participate in fighting against the superior Allied forces in the region. Its main claim to fame was its first (and last) mission when it was torpedoed and sank. The film footage of the battleship capsizing was the only film taken of a battleship sinking during the Great War.
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