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SWEDISH NAVY (SWEDEN)

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FREJA composite screw corvette (1886)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Freja   42 Kockums, Malmö   25.7.1885 5.6.1886 accommodation ship 1907

 

Displacement normal, t

2000

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

66.0 pp

Breadth, m

12.0

Draught, m

5.72 max

No of shafts

1

Machinery

 

Power, h. p.

1750

Max speed, kts

12

Fuel, t

coal 180

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

4 x 1 - 152/25 K/28 M1883, 8 x 1 - 122/23 K/26 M1881, 2 x 1 - 65/16 landing guns

Complement

284

Project history: Composite screw corvette, intended for training roles.

Modernizations: 1890s: + 4 x 1 - 37/34 K/37 M1898

Naval service: Freja became auxiliary in 1907 but her wreck was broken up only in 1978.

Freja

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