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EHRENSKÖLD destroyers (1927)


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Ehrensköld 1927 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Ehrensköld 11, 1952- 71 147 Kockums, Malmö 1924 25.9.1926 9.1927 stricken 4.1963
Nordenskjöld 12, 1952- 72 220 Götaverken, Göteborg 1924 19.6.1926 9.1927 stricken 4.1963


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

974

Displacement full, t

~1160

Length, m

89.0 pp 91.4 oa

Breadth, m

8.88

Draught, m

3.80 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 sets de Laval geared steam turbines, 3 Penhoët boilers

Power, h. p.

24000

Max speed, kts

36

Fuel, t

oil 170

Endurance, nm(kts)1600(20)
Armament

3 x 1 - 120/44 K/45 M24, 2 x 1 - 40/39 M22, 2 x 3 - 533 TT, 2 DCT, 2 DCR, 20 mines

Electronic equipmentpresumably hydrophone
Complement

120



Standard scale images


<i>Ehresköld</i> 1939
Ehresköld 1939
<i>Ehrensköld </i>1960
Ehrensköld 1960


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<i>Ehrensköld</i> 1927 <i>Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.</i>
Ehrensköld 1927 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.


Project history

Having constructed only two of four planed Wrangel class destroyers, Swedish Naval staff has cancelled the order on second pair, having put before designers the task to create the new design meeting modern requirements. Designing was conducted since 1919 till 1924 and achieved full success: Swedish Navy received a competitive destroyer at first time (all previous designs repeated foreign samples and became outdated while designed), not yielding, and in something and pre-eminent the Baltic contemporaries: only two Polish destroyers built in France could rival with Ehrensköld and Nordenskjöld, and that basically on a paper as the Swedish ships had much more quick-firing guns, besides had magnificent seaworthiness, not yielding even British ships. Perhaps, the design had only two lacks: an unsuccessful arrangement of gun No2 between funnels and having the limited turn angles, and 40mm pompoms, differing by low reliability and small fire power.

As a whole Ehrensköld class was valued in the Swedish Navy very highly and has formed a basis for building during 15 years of 14 so-called "standard" destroyers: a huge series for Sweden. Both ships were classified as fast frigates from 1951.

Modernizations

mid-1930s, both: - 2 x 1 - 40/39; + 2 x 1 - 40/56 K/60 M32

1939, both: new boilers were installed; - 2 x 1 - 40/56; + 2 x 2 - 25/55 K/58 M32

(1950-1951), both as frigates: were armed with 1 x 1 - 120/45 M24C, 2 x 2 - 40/60 M36, 1 x 1 - 20/66 M40, 8 DCT, radars, sonar

Naval service

No significant events.

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