HSwMS Sölve
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HSwMS Sölve is one of seven Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".s built for the Swedish Navy in the mid-1870s. The ship had an uneventful career and was sold in 1919 for conversion into a barge. She became a museum ship in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1992.
Design and description
The Hildur-class monitors were designed by Lieutenant John Christian d'Ailly, from a proposal by John Ericsson, for the defense of Lake Mälaren and the Stockholm archipelago. The ships were Script error: No such module "convert". long overall and had a beam of Script error: No such module "convert".. They had a draft of Script error: No such module "convert". and displaced Script error: No such module "convert".. Her crew numbered 48 officers and men. The ship had rudders at bow and stern.[1]
The Hildurs had a pair of two-cylinder horizontal-return connecting-rod steam engines, each driving a single propeller using steam from two cylindrical boilers. The engines produced a total of Script error: No such module "convert". which gave the monitors a maximum speed of Script error: No such module "convert"..[2] The ships carried Script error: No such module "convert". of coal.[3]
The monitors were equipped with one Script error: No such module "convert". M/69 rifled breech loader, mounted in a long, fixed, oval-shaped gun turret. The gun weighed Script error: No such module "convert". and fired projectiles at a muzzle velocity of Script error: No such module "convert".. At its maximum elevation of 7.5° it had a range of Script error: No such module "convert"..[4] The Hildurs also mounted two Script error: No such module "convert". guns. They were rearmed with a Script error: No such module "convert". quick-firing gun as well as three Script error: No such module "convert". quick-firing guns sometime in the 1890s or the early 1900s.[1]
The Hildur class had a complete waterline armor belt of wrought iron that was Script error: No such module "convert". thick with a Script error: No such module "convert". deck. The face of the gun turret was protected by Script error: No such module "convert". of armor, while its sides were Script error: No such module "convert". thick. The conning tower protruded from the top of the turret and was protected by Script error: No such module "convert". of armor.[5]
Construction and service
Sölve, named after Sölve, a semi-legendary King of Sweden, was launched in 1875 by Motala Verkstad at Norrköping.[3] She was decommissioned in 1919 and was converted into an oil barge after she was sold. The ship was acquired by the Gothenburg Maritima Centrum from Mobiloil in 1992.[5] It has been partially restored and is currently moored at the Maritiman marine museum in Gothenburg.[6]
Notes
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References
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