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Hildur-class monitor
File:HMS Hildur scale 1to50 model.jpg
Model of Hildur, the lead ship of the class
Class overview
Operators:
Preceded by: John Ericsson class
Completed: 7
Active: 0

The Hildur-class monitors were a group of seven monitors built by the Swedish Navy.

Design[]

General[]

Berserk and Ulf both had signal towers, presumably gained when the two were refitted in 1897-1898.[1]

Propulsion[]

All of the monitors of the Hildur class had two propellers.[1]

Armament[]

All of the Hildur class monitors had one turret.[1]

Armor[]

Construction[]

Ship Builder Launched Reconstructed Fate
HSwMS Sölve Motala Verkstad, Norrköping 1875[1] Never Stricken 1919[2]
HSwMS Folke 1875[1] Never Stricken 1919[2]
HSwMS Berserk 1 January 1874[3] 1897-1898[1] Stricken 1919[2]
HSwMS Björn 1876[1] Never Stricken 1922[2]
HSwMS Ulf 1873[1] 1897-1898[1] Stricken 1919[2]
HSwMS Gerda 1873[1] Never
HSwMS Hildur 1872[1] Never

References[]

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Clowes, Sir William Laird (1900). The Naval Pocket-book, Volume 5. W. Thacker & Company. p. 552. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Berserk small monitors (1873-1875) - Swedish Navy (Sweden)". http://www.navypedia.org/ships/sweden/sw_of_berserk.htm. Retrieved 13 November 2016. 
  3. ↑ "http://navalhistory.flixco.info/H/285427/8330/a0.htm". http://navalhistory.flixco.info/H/285427/8330/a0.htm. Retrieved 13 November 2016. 
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