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SWEDISH NAVY (SWEDEN)

CRUISERS

SAGA wooden screw corvette (1878)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Saga     Karlskronavarvet 7.8.1874 12.11.1877 20.6.1878 TS 1893, canteen ship 1906

 

Displacement normal, t

1617

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

61.0 wl

Breadth, m

10.2

Draught, m

5.59 max

No of shafts

1

Machinery

 

Power, h. p.

900

Max speed, kts

11

Fuel, t

coal 170

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 167/18 K/21 M1869, 6 x 1 - 122/20 K/22 M1873

Complement

188

Project history: Wooden screw corvette.

Modernizations: 1888: - 1 x 1 - 167/18; + 1 x 1 - 152/25 K/28 M1883, 2 x 1 - 122/20 K/22 M1873, 1 x 1 - 65/16 landing gun

Naval service: Since 1893 Saga served in training role.

Saga

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