normally and up to at combat loading. The latter allowed the ship to steam for at a cruising speed of . Armament and armor Sankt Georg was armed with a main battery of two large-caliber guns and several medium-caliber pieces. She carried two G. L/40 S. guns in a twin-gun turret on the centerline forward. These guns fired a shell at a muzzle velocity of , at a maximum range of . Each gun, manufactured by Škoda Works, was supplied with forty high-explosive and forty armor-piercing shells. The guns were housed in electrically trained turrets that allowed elevation to 20° and depression to −4°. Five G. L/42 guns and four L/40 guns, all mounted individually in casemates with one of the G. L/42 on a single turret aft, rounded out her offensive armament. Sankt Georg carried 120 rounds for each of the 19 cm guns and 180 rounds for the 15 cm pieces. A battery of nine L/45 guns, six L/44 quick-firing guns (QF) and two L/33 QF guns provided close-range defense against torpedo boats. The 7 cm guns had an actual caliber of . They had a rate of fire of twenty rounds per minute, and each gun was supplied with 400 rounds of ammunition. The 4.7 cm guns had a rate of fire of 25 rounds per minute, and were typically stocked with 500 rounds. She carried several smaller weapons, including a pair of machine guns and two L/18 landing guns. One Škoda 7 cm K10 anti-aircraft gun was installed in 1916. Sankt Georg was also equipped with a pair of torpedo tubes, one on each broadside. The ship was protected by a main armored belt that was thick in the central portion that protected the ammunition magazines and machinery spaces, and reduced to on either end. Transverse armored bulkheads that were thick capped the armored belt on either end. She had an armored deck that was thick. Her two gun turrets had 210 mm thick faces, and the conning tower had thick sides. Service history On 11 March 1901, the keel for Sankt Georg was laid down at the Pola Arsenal. She was launched on 8 December 1903, and completed on 21 July 1905. Starting from her commissioning, Sankt Georg frequently served in the training squadron, along with the three s, though she alternated in the squadron with the armored cruiser Kaiser Karl VI. Once the summer