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ROYAL NORWEGIAN NAVY (NORWAY)

OTHER FIGHTING SHIPS

SLEIPNER gunboat (1878)

Sleipner 1914

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
Sleipner     MV Horten 1.1877 7.8.1877 5.1878 TS 1900, accommodation ship 1915

 

Displacement normal, t

571

Displacement full, t

720

Length, m

53.3

Breadth, m

7.90

Draught, m

3.35

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VC

Power, h. p.

650

Max speed, kts

12

Fuel, t

coal 81
Endurance, nm(kts) 1230(10)

Armament

1 x 1 - 263/20 RK L/22 C/76 No.1, 1 x 1 - 149/22 RK L/25 C/75, 1 - 356 TT (bow)

Complement 90

 

Project history: Large seagoing iron-hulled gunboat.

Modernizations: 1900: new armament consisted of 1 x 1 - 149/37 SK L/40 C/92, 2 x 1 - 76/40 Armstrong N, 2 x 1 - 65/50 Hotchkiss, 2 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss

Naval service: In 1900 Sleipner was reconstructed and converted to TS. In 1915 she was converted to accommodation ship and in 1921 to depot ship for naval aviation. She was finally BU in 1935.

Sleipner

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