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10. The flagship of the Imperial and Royal Navy Fleet, Viribus unitis, near Pula at the beginning of 1915. Four ships of the ‘Tegetthoff’ class, Austria-Hungary’s most modern battleships, with twelve 30.5 cm cannon and a crew of around 1,000 men, took part in only a few operations during the naval war in the Adriatic. They had to be protected, constituted a permanent threat to the Allies and were, therefore, themselves endangered. Two of them were sunk before the end of the war. One of these was the Viribus unitis.