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SWEDISH NAVY (SWEDEN)

TORPEDO SHIPS

MAGNE destroyer (1905)

Magne 1912

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Magne 2 378 Thornycroft, Woolston, UK 1904 21.8.1905 9.1905 stricken 7.1936

 

Displacement normal, t

430

Displacement full, t

460

Length, m

65.8 oa

Breadth, m

6.30

Draught, m

2.49 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 4 Thornycroft boilers

Power, h. p.

7200

Max speed, kts

30

Fuel, t

coal 80

Endurance, nm(kts) 1400(12)

Armament

6 x 1 - 57/50 K/55 M89B, 2 x 1 - 450 TT

Complement

67

Project history: Design was developed on basis of Japanese Shirakumo class but was adapted for northern weather conditions. She was appeared good seaworthy ship for Baltic and was a prototype for succeeded Swedish-built ships.

Modernizations: none.

Naval service: Magne was used as target and BU only in 1944.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

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