Sinking of the Austrian Battleship SMS Szent István 1918 WWI film 

All sailors in the Navy of Austria-Hungary were required to learn how to swim.

@@cefloach9019 not a bad idea, right?

@@woj5924 At that time, it was believed that a quick death by drowning was better than dying of hypothermia.

@@spirz4557 is that really so?

@@woj5924 Yes.

I've seen that ship. Did not know about its history - impressive.

We should be grateful that we didn't go through what our previous generations had to go through! I'm sure most young men today wouldn't join in!

Hi! My Grandfather's brother was on the boat too. Survived, but committed suicide in mid 1920s. Greetings from Hungary!

My great grandfather was on this ship as well. He was at the stern when they tried to balance the ship and then they jumped but only after they got the order from the captain! We also have a big photo of a sinking ship in a living room in our family house. 10th June 2018 marks 100th anniversary of the sinking of the ship!

My great-great-uncle (I think that's the right number of greats) was involved in it's designing and actually told the navy that the guns they wanted were to big for the ship and that it would capsize because they'd make it top heavy.

I would have jumped and swam too. If the skipper wanted to go down with his ship, then that would be his choice. I hope all of the crew got topside when it became obvious the vessel was going to capsize. For all their great bulk and armoured protection (or possibly because of it), battleships quickly became unstable death-traps after a few torpedo hits in critical parts of their hulls.

Is the wreck within reach of scuba divers?

Until the ship went below and the force sucked them all underwater... best to swim away as fast you can in that situation.

@@JonathanWJ most of the time sinking ships have very little suction

Dear Matej, there are several eyewitness records from the sinking of the SMS Szent István, none of them mentions shooting of survivors. There are also two film reels from 2 different angels, but at no time is the shooting of survivors visible. This claim is contradictory to the rules of the Austro-Hungarian navy (in fact, any WW1 navy), and also common sense. To put it politely, your comment is a piece of fiction!

Yes that 'shooting' probably is fiction

Did the ship hit a mine, torpedoed or shot by other ships?

@@steffeness1 it was hit by one or max 2 torpedoo shot by Italian powerboat of Decima Flottiglia MAS that was a boat of 20 tons and from 4 to 10 men over Durring WW1 Italian Navy sunk 3 Austrian Battleships the Wien, the Viribus Unitis and the Saint Stephen...

@@Benito-Musolesi SMS Wien was struck by two torpedoes while was at anchor in Trieste harbor. SMS Viribus Unitis was sunk by Italian diversion (with magnetic mine) the DAY AFTER the end of WW1 while was at anchor in Pula harbor. Anchors from SMS Viribus Unitis are today in Roma in front of Ministry of defence

Yep and also the slow sinking of the ship helped, as well as the warmer waters and a fellow ship standing nearby ready to pick up survivors.

Quite honestly seems like common sense doesn't it? If you're going to be on a ship might help to know how to swim in case you end up wet.

@@sorrenblitz805 It was quite rare for sailors to know how to swim at that time.

This is the second battleship from WW1 filmed sinking I watched tonight.

Little toads HMS Barham

HMS Audacious from WW1

HMS Barham was in 1941, and WW2, not WW1, as referred to...

Scott Coleman True how ever still shots . Good ones . There are some excellent videos about this incident which hit a mine not a torpedo . The common claim is that more ships were the victims of mines than anything else

Hitler said that german are bad soldiers

This ship was heavily escorted by destroyers and cruisers too

The Austo-Hungarian navy actually suffered relatively few casualties during the war compared with the British and German navies. The Austro-Hungarians decided very early on in the war to keep their fleet largely close to its home ports, so that it would remain a threat in the mediterranian and force the French (and later the Italian) Navy to stay in the Mediterranian Sea to keep a check on it (this strategy is called "Fleet in Being") as such, the bulk of the Austrian navy during the war. All the naval battles fought in the Adiratic involved only light Austrian naval units like destroyers, torpedo boats, and small cruisers.

cowards

It is treason then.

Did they enlist later in the US navy for WW1?

@Teddles Peddles You do know you are a a hole don't you ? By the way what service did you serve in ?

Because it wasnt sinking. It was under tow for some two hours when ut was concluded that the pumpa would not be sufficient to keep it afloat until it reached port and efforts to keep it afloat ceased.

@@fritzbauer6064 Actually until the 20th century Croats made up 50% of AH navy and during the war Croats made up 1/3 of the navy.

@@yoyohehe2034 he said it himself, Cisleithenia includes Bohemia and Galicia not just Austria

Thats wrong, the Italian battleship Dante Alighieri was one year before the Tegetthoff class build and had allso three cannons in each turret.

89 sailors out of 1094 died. Can't really talk about a Captain's mistake with casualty numbers like that.

Warships didn’t have lifeboats; there were cutters for going from ship-to-shore but they required a lot of time and effort to launch. In addition, Szent István don’t even have enough electrical power to run her pumps due to the boiler rooms flooding. This meant that they couldn’t have been able to launch the boats if they wanted to as they wouldn’t have been able to power the cranes

@@sirboomsalot4902 Maybe you have different information but I doubt cranes at that time were automated - a handcrank does the job just fine.

Dreadnought-era of battleship building lasted approx 40 years, Szent was commissioned on year 9 of that…

Keep in mind, everyone in WWII ended up putting new battleships in service after they were outright obsolete (strategically).

@@bkjeong4302 I’m not an admiral of course, but it always seemed weird to me how resistant Many Naval officers were to building carriers. The benefits seem obvious.

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It didnt take a torpedo to the boiler room, the bulkhead doors simply wernt closed in time, and one of them flooded. And the ship was plenty compartmentalized. From what I remember from the blueprints it had 16 sealable compartments, plus its torpedo bulges were also filled with air. Why it sunk was twofold. It was too small for its armament (153 metersfor a dozen twelve inch 45 caliber guns? making it top heavy, thats why it flipped over, and its torpedo bulge was too small, which lead to flooding in the first place. As for it being easyto sink, well one of them was used by france as target practice, and they had to sink it with scuttlig charges because their battleship guns couldnt.

+MeMad Max Compromised design, take a look on what insanity the Lexington's design process at one time had (and again contemplated in the South Dakota's in 1939!): boilers rooms under water AND another set above the armour deck ( warshipprojects.com/2017/03/20/washington-cherry-trees-i-part-2/) just in able to get it all fit in one hull. while the KuK didn't try to build excessively fast ships, they still had to work with coal and -triple-expansion engines- , bringing in all sorts of interesting design challenges to solve. Horrible workmanship didn't help either though. Anti-torpedo systems really comes at the expense of usable hull-width, which in turn means you or have to squeeze your propulsion system or make your hull longer at the expense of extra weight for a longer citadel, compromise on hull strength because your heavy armament is put on the outer sides where there is no buoyancy generated AND you have lots of machinery spaces at the places you would like to have extra bulkheads to generate the structural strength where you need it most.

We should be grateful that we didn't go through what our previous generations had to go through! I'm sure most young men today wouldn't join in!

Savoia Savoia,bel grido d'amore !

Obviously a small Italian boat!

A small boat with torpedoes is actually a challenge for battleships to deal with (the guns can’t fire frequently enough to guarantee a hit).

Given that the attack happened at night; (shortly before dawn?), it was fairly easy for the two smal boats sneak past the escorts right into the heart of the entire Fleet. + Considering how Torpedos where are fairly new weapon, ant therefore Torpedoprotection was in its Infancy... One could argue that the entire Attack was a big gamble by the Italians and it happened to turn out in their favor.

@@mathiash.1379 It wasn't a gamble; Miklós Horthy before taking command of the k.u.k. Kriegsmarine, had already attacked 4 times the barrier of the Otranto channel, it was therefore very likely that the new commander intended to give a signal of change in the conduct of the war and that the Otranto channel, well known to him, was part of his plans . For this reason the Italian commander Thaon di Revel had placed submarines lurking in front of Pola, Durres and the Faresina canal. he had also intensified the nocturnal patrols of the Dalmatian coast, (yes, as you wrote, it is easy for small boats to sneak between the stocks of the fleet at night, but it is equally true that large ship formations can go unnoticed with favor of darkness).

Frogman were even better

When the ship was hit, it was not thought to be damaged fatally, and thus it was taken under tow by another battleship which tried to tow it towards port. The vast majority of the crew on the Szent Istvan survived, only 89 of her 1094 died, and some of those during the torpedo attacks on the ship and not in the sinking itself. The high survival rate was in part due to the fact that swimming lessons were a mandatory part of Austro-Hungarian basic training for naval recruits, which surprisingly some other navies at the time did not require.

Too busy doing damage control, usually you only abandon ship once it’s absolutely certain the ship can’t be kept afloat

Well Mr Bauer....subs ate traditionally called boats because in the early 1900s they wrte almost that small. The nickname stuck and subs always are called boats! Ships are different because they are usually larger and usually only navy carrier aircrew call it a boat out of spite. Hope rhat answers you. Didnt mean to insult your fine language i just didnt understand!

@@fritzbauer6064 thank you for writing back. I do not mind the language barrier but if your uncomfortable with that i understand. I sstill wish to be friends if you change your mind. The very best to you and your family!

Boat

The battleship faced to motorboat

Imagine getting sunk by a naval surgeon and an engineer

Many survived due to the fact that the Austro-Hungarian Navy taught their sailors how to swim in boot camp, apparently.

I think I would have nightmares for the rest of my life

There where well over 1100 men onboard, only 89 died.

89 dead out of 1094.

Because those warships were ususally pretty top heavy,they have turrets and stuff you know...so when they started flooding they were more likely to capsize

First of all the Wien was a ship of the line not a real battleship. The Viribus Unitis and the Szent Istvan were by far not the only battleships sunk in WW1. And why do you comment under every video about the Szent Istvan? You should keep your patriotism in check or should i remind you of the battle of lissa?

@@manueleberharter7052 Savages.... When Roma 2000 years ago, was already an empire and a town of more than 1 milion of citizen, your ancestors still live over trees and inside holes without scripture... Caino was austrian.... Like uncle Adolf, opa Fritzl and doktor Menghele...

In theory the Viribus Unitis wasn't anymore austian but of the kingdom of criats Slovenes and serbs

@@alessandroboccalatte8120 True and I think she was renamed to "Jugoslavija"

@@manueleberharter7052 Artiglieria 4 cannoni da 240 mm 6 cannoni da 150 mm 17 cannoni da 47 mm Siluri 2 tubi lanciasiluri da 450 mm ask to your mom how many Italian torpedoes has keep in her life

all have seen....

it was this specific ship that didn't, because it was built by the hungarian industry, since all production had to be 66.5% austrian industry and 33.5% hungarian one, the designs had to be changed so the weaker hungarian industry could handle it, and it is impressive that even then it could do so.

Try to find the uncut footage anywhere online...it is totally unavailable - not just on RU-vid, but anywhere at all. After over 100 years, just who has made the decision for us that absolutely nobody can see it anymore?

They thought that they could use their weight as a counterbalance after trying to plug the holes with collision mats and trying to pump out the water failed.

@@fredherbert7920 I know what they were trying to do. All the crew put together probable weight about 70 tons. The ship weighed 20,000+ tons. Even if they all did stand on one side, which they didn't appear to be doing in a disciplined way judging by the amount of milling around going on, they would never be able to budge it. Especially as it was adding more weight as the water entered the hull. They should have just launched the lifeboats and let the ship go.

@MEs61 Yeah. That's probably true. Captain must have been a idiot.

@@Makeyourselfbig or dead

Most of that 89 sailors tried to stop the waterflow(sinking). And some of them died during rescue.

Well, not the same; Bismarck at least got the opportunity to actually fight a battle against enemy ships. Szent István was sunk before he got his first real combat. :/

Also, fairly sure that Bismarck took a lot longer to die (despite being a glass cannon by WWII standards)

I undestan why austrians always made lose the wars to Germany

were slut-venian....

is your mom in the porno industry?

217rnswr Lol Blucher sunk in WW2

Daniel MP The armoured cruiser Blücher was sunk during the Battle of Dogger Bank on 24 January 1916. Lol? Get the right ship!

Terry Shulky What? Blucher was sunk on 9th of April 1940 in Norway

Daniel MP Yes, the heavy cruiser Blucher was sunk in Oslo Fjord on 9th April 1940 but the armoured cruiser Blucher was sunk during the battle of the Dogger Bank on 24 January 1916. Hint: they are NOT the same ship!

Terry Shulky Shit I didnt know there were two bluchers

Simply Better.

Lol?

FreshnessForDays yeah, she was a battleship of the Austro-Hungarian navy during the first world war

Builded by Hungarian industry.

a motor boat of 20 tons with 5 men and 2 torpedos facendo with a battleship of 25000 tons 500 men 12 cannons 305 mm 2 cannons of 75mm 18 cannons of 70mm 2 machine gun of 45mm 4 torpedo launcer ...

Could you see it sink?

This was during WWI, of course he didn't see it sink

Then he couldn’t have been close.

The remains of the sunken ship is nearby a Croatian island. Idk which island, but he probably mean't the island close to the sunken remains of the Szent István.

nice... so what? noone gives a damn

An italiab Torpedo boat attacked it at night

Durring the WW1 Italian Decima MAS sunk 3 Austrian battleships, the Wien, the Viribus Unitis and the Saint Stephen...

@@limmyk4943 in the morfina, the men of Decima MAS discovered the battleship thanks it's smoke

You put that as if 12 12inch turrets isnt a big armament? I think the people who classified the ship knew plenty more than you do

Hungary is facendo on sea?

is this because austria lose the war...

manco era una battaglia, vittoria non è un termine adatto.

@@Venetianmappingandanimations sì che vittoria è un termine adatto

It had an Empire back then and had governed much of Northern Italy until the middle of the 19th century. Also until the end of WW1 it had part of the Adriatic coast in what became Yugoslavia.

The Russians have a Ministry of Justice!

Because it became land locked only AFTER WW1, when all the ethnic groups within the empire where given their independence. This are the Borders of Austria-Hungary before WW1: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Austria1914physical.jpg

@@dunruden9720 But they're not land-locked.

@@tristanwilkinson9516 How is that relevant?

I'm not even Austrian or a great fan of them, but your hatred against Austrians is disgusting. I have read your other comments too. Austrian wood men? It shows how well-read you are. It was only a part of the sailors who were Austrians there. Some people swam back to save the flags of the ship and an officer to help save his men. They all went down with the ship. The only cowards were those who jumped off before the order to leave. I could also insult your people if I wanted to, but no peoples should be treated like that, independently from everything. I suggest you to think about this and change for the better.

No steel men nor any of your bs , the torpedo boat crew members didn't know there was a seize fire and the battleship crew know that so they didn't fire a single shell , be real a 3×4 triple 380 mm guns battleship against a torpedo boat , seriously would sinks it befor even they enter the torpedo boat rang , non steel men nor wooden boats BS You're talking about .

@@p.b.5107 You are ignorant. I used the same phrase said by a hight Austrian officer decades earlier. If you don't know, shut up and study. The millions of deaths caused by the Germans and Austrians are in history. Infants massacred or used as targets by German soldiers are also on utube...

@@abdelmalekmetidji those miserable Austrians have entered history thanks to the legendary ''FLOTIGLIA MAS'' They just have to say thank you. The actions of the best and most glorious group of Navy Stormtroopers of the world and of all time ''FLOTTIGLIA MAS'', are legend. not just the sinking of dozens of boats during WW1. After the victorious raid on Trieste in December 1917, in which the MAS 9 and 13, led respectively by Luigi Rizzo and Andrea Ferrarini, had sunk the Austro-Hungarian battleship Wien During WW2 the ''FLOTIGLIA MAS'' sank the heavy cruiser HMS YORK and the battleships HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH and HMS VALLIANT in the port of Alexandria in Egypt Raid on Alexandria (1941)

@@Benito-Musolesi How will I know if you don't say the name of the officer, or where this is documented? Also this isn't the only thing you say, as I wrote it. Are all Germans and Austrians bad for this? You just seem to hate them for some reason, but the millions they killed were killed by the kind of people who talk trash like you do. Ask old Benito what was the role of the noble Italians on the side of those filty Germans... And you liking your own comment is pathetic.

Fiddy 007 roblox Igen, az én barátnő magyar ;)

the testicles are the major time 2...

SMS Szent Istvan was a unit of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, one of the Tegetthoff class. She was built in Hungary yes, but Hungary was then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Yes it is. In this battleship class were build 4 Pcs. This one by Hungaria. Construction was separate in Rijeka and this ship was the worst piece in this class. Practicaly everything was lower class quality oposite to the rest of class. Only guns were same. From Skoda company. St. Istvan was incredible faulty.

He was built in Croatia, which was part of AH Empire too...Hungary havent any see than Balaton swamp....

Nor austrian, nor hungarian: Austro-hungarian.

no this ship was founded by Hungary... This class has 4 units and the 4th was this ship founded and build by hungarians in croatia... it was tha worst ship in its class...

true. that is why most of the crew was croatian. Though czech and austrian too. Also sea free people. :-)

they were largely anti-air and machinegun crews in the navy. and there was navy training, so having previous experience is certainly a + but on a battleship it does not amount to much

Hungarian titanic

say austrian germans... that were allied with russian in ww2.......

So?

@@danih487 ehhh?

That ship was sunk in war. The viribus unitis was sanked the last day of the war, but the frogmen didn't know it. They didn't even know it was passed to Yugoslavia by Austria (for avoid to be captured by the allieds. But the allieds didn't care that, and claimed the surviving ships after the peace treaty, that was both sanked in live fire tests after the war I guess one in Italy and one in france.). But the sant istvan was sanked in a war action, at the first mission, trying to break trough the Italian British blockade of otranto channel she was caught by the Italian torpedo boats that sanked it. The Austrian ships fired back too, and a torpedo boat stalked the motor boats for sometime before they dropped some depth charges that forced the escort to turn, letting them escape. Rizzo, the skipper of the motor boat sanked 1 Austrian battleship and a coastal defense battleship, the wien, forcing the Trieste or pola harbors I don't remember, so have respect of a decorated sailor, maybe the most successful motor torpedo boat commander of history. BUT ALSO IF THE FROGMEN HAD NEWS ABOUT THE PASSAGE OF THE V. U. TO YUGOSLAVIA, MAYBE THEY WOULD HAVE SUSPENDED THE ACTION, BUT THE SHIP WAS ANYCASE GIVED TO THE ALLIEDS AS WAR PRIZE. THEY COULDN'T ALLOW THE FORMER ENEMY BATTLE FLEET TO SURVIVE.

now try to say this without crying...

As usual, we have to read a stupid comment, written by a ignorant donkey with no knowledge of real historical events and based on ridiculous clichés. Indeed, Italian frogmen were the best elite troops during WWI and WWII. Cowardly my ass honey, you need big balls in your paints to do what they did. Shut up and go learning history, little brainwashed moron.

Not this one. You're thinking of her sister ship the Viribus Unitis.

Moron, this ship was sunk in June 1918, the war ended November 1918.

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