| HSwMS Sölve | |
|---|---|
 HSwMS Sölve monitor | |
| Career |   |
| Name: | HSwMS Sölve |
| Namesake: | Sölve |
| Builder: | Ericsson-D'Ailly |
| Launched: | 1875 |
| Refit: | 1921 |
| Fate: | Preserved at the Maritiman marine museum in Gothenburg, Sweden. |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 460 metric tons[1] |
| Length: | 39.8 m[1] |
| Beam: | 8 m[1] |
| Draught: | 2.5 m[1] |
| Draft: | 2.5 m[1] |
| Crew: | 48 men[2] |
| Armor: | iron[3] |
HSwMS Sölve is a monitor warship, built in 1875 at the Motala Warf in Norrköping, Sweden,[1] by John Ericsson and J. C. A. d'Ailly.[3] It is one of the few monitors still in existence, and is currently moored at the Maritiman marine museum in Gothenburg, Sweden.[1]
The vessel was one of the last of the 15 Swedish monitors to be built for use by the Swedish Navy,[2] and was named for Sölve, a semi-legendary King of Sweden. In 1919 the ship was placed on the sale list.[4] It was converted into a tank barge in 1921 and was donated to the Maritiman marine museum by a scrapping shipyard after being retired from service.[2]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 "Monitoren Sölve" (in Swedish). maritiman.se. Maritiman marine museum. http://www.maritiman.se/default.asp?viewset=1&on=Fartygsflottan&id=&initid=52&heading=Fartygsflottan&mainpage=templates/05.asp?sida=44. Retrieved 2008-04-08.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "The Sölve monitor". undated. http://bencourtney.com/maritiman/maritiman_pamphlet.gif. Retrieved 2008-04-08.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Glete, Jan (December 2003). "John Ericsson and the Transformation of Swedish Naval Doctrine" (PDF). http://www.ijnhonline.org/volume2_number3_Dec03/pdf_dec03/Glete%20-%20Ericsson%20PDF.pdf. Retrieved 2008-04-08.
- ↑ Harris, Daniel G (1994). "Warship 1994". In Roberts, John. Conway Maritime press. p. 32. ISBN 0-85177-630-2.
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Coordinates: 57°42′33″N 11°57′36″E / 57.70917°N 11.96°E
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