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URD gunboats

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Urd   Kockums, Malmö 8/1875 5/7/1877 10/1877 collision 22/8/1913
Verdande (ex-Verdandi)   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   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

HC, boilers

Power, h. p.

780

Max speed, kn

13.4

Fuel, t

coal 80

Armament

1 x 1 - 274/18 Armstrong RML, 1 x 1 - 120/21 Armstrong RML, 2 x 1 - 25/35 M77

Complement

72

Ship project history: Coast defence gunboats, improvement of Blenda class.

Modernizations: 1880s, all: - 1 x 1 - 120/21; + 1 x 1 - 120/24 M81

1894, Urd; 1896, Skagul; 1906, Skäggald: armoured CT with 51mm sides was fitted; - 1 x 1 - 274/18, 1 x 1 - 120/24, 2 x 1 - 25/35; + 1 x 1 - 152/34 M89, 1 x 1 - 120/45 M94, 2 x 1 - 57/55 M89

1896, Rota: + 2 x 1 - 57/55 M89

1906, Rota: disarmed

1907, Skuld: - 1 x 1 - 274/18, 1 x 1 - 120/24, 2 x 1 - 25/35; + 1 x 1 - 120/45 M94, 2 x 1 - 8/80

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

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

Skagul

Skäggald

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