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SWEDISH NAVY (SWEDEN)

OTHER FIGHTING SHIPS

URD gunboats (1877-1881)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Urd   16 Kockums, Malmö 8.1875 5.7.1877 10.1877 collision 22.8.1913
Verdande (ex-Verdandi)   258 Örlogsvarvet Karlskrona 4.1876 19.10.1878 5.1880 TS 1901, hospital ship 1909
Skagul     Bergsund, Stockholm 8.1877 12.8.1878 12.1878 depot ship 1923
Skuld   259 Örlogsvarvet Karlskrona   4.10.1879 9.1881 TS 1904, submarine depot ship 1916
Skäggald     Bergsund, Stockholm   7.12.1878 5.1879 submarine depot ship 1910
Rota     Bergsund, Stockholm   3.7.1878 10.1878 surveying vessel 1906, minelayer 1918, stricken 2.1928

 

Displacement normal, t

533

Displacement full, t

550

Length, m

53.6

Breadth, m

8.05

Draught, m

2.82

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 HC, boilers

Power, h. p.

780

Max speed, kts

13.4

Fuel, t

coal 80

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 274/17 K/20 M1876, 1 x 1 - 122/20 K/22 M1873, 2 x 1 - 25/32 K/35 M1877

Complement

72

Project history: Coast defence gunboats, improvement of Blenda class.

Modernizations: 1880s, all: - 1 x 1 - 122/20; + 1 x 1 - 122/23 K/26 M1881

1894, Urd; 1896, Skagul; 1906, Skäggald: armoured CT with 51mm sides was fitted; - 1 x 1 - 274/17, 1 x 1 - 122/23, 2 x 1 - 25/32; + 1 x 1 - 152/30 K/32 M1889, 1 x 1 - 120/43 K/45 M1894, 2 x 1 - 57/50 K/55 M1889

1896, Rota: + 2 x 1 - 57/50 K/55 M1889

1906, Rota: disarmed

1907, Skuld: - 1 x 1 - 274/17, 1 x 1 - 122/23, 2 x 1 - 25/32; + 1 x 1 - 120/43 K/45 M94, 2 x 1 - 8.80

1918, Rota: + 1 x 1 - 57/18 K/21 M16, mines

Naval service: Urd was accidentally rammed by coastal battleship Oden in the Sound 22.8.1913.

Skagul

Skäggald

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

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