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VIKING small protected cruiser (1891)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Viking     Horten verft 1890 2.4.1891 1891 stricken 1920


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

1120
Displacement full, t1181
Length, m

63.5
Breadth, m

9.30
Draught, m

3.66 max
No of shafts

2
Machinery

2 VC, 4 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.

2000
Max speed, kts

15
Fuel, t

coal 140
Endurance, nm(kts)2300(10)
Armour, mm

Harvey; deck: 35, shields: 25, casemates: 25, CT: 35
Armament

2 x 1 - 149/37 SK L/40 C/92, 4 x 1 - 65/50 Hotchkiss, 4 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 1 - 356 TT (bow)
Complement

125


Project history

On the borderline between cruiser and gunboat, but the 35mm deck places this ship as a cruiser.

Protection

Armoured thin 35mm deck protected machinery. 15cm guns were protected by 25mm shields, secondary guns were protected by 25mm casemates.

Modernizations

1904: new armament consisted of 1 x 1 - 149/46 Armstrong CC1, 1 x 1 - 120/44 Armstrong Y, 4 x 1 - 76/40 Armstrong N, 2 x 1 - 75/37 SK L/40?, 6 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 1 - 356 TT (bow)

Naval service

Viking was stricken in 1920 and in 1924 sold to Norwegian Red Cross for use as hospital ship.