HSwMS Sölve
{{Short description|Swedish monitor warship}}
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HSwMS Sölve is one of seven {{sclass|Hildur|monitor|3|warship}}s built for the Swedish Navy in the mid-1870s. The ship had an uneventful career and was sold in 1919 for conversion into a barge. She became a museum ship in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1992.
Design and description
The Hildur-class monitors were designed by Lieutenant John Christian d'Ailly, from a proposal by John Ericsson, for the defense of Lake Mälaren and the Stockholm archipelago. The ships were {{convert|39.78|m|ftin|sp=us}} long overall and had a beam of {{convert|8.72|m|ftin|sp=us}}. They had a draft of {{convert|2.7|m|ftin|sp=us}} and displaced {{convert|460|t|LT|sp=us}}. Her crew numbered 48 officers and men. The ship had rudders at bow and stern.Harris, pp. 30–32
The Hildurs had a pair of two-cylinder horizontal-return connecting-rod steam engines, each driving a single propeller using steam from two cylindrical boilers. The engines produced a total of {{convert|155|ihp|lk=in}} which gave the monitors a maximum speed of {{convert|8|kn|lk=in}}.Harris, pp. 30–31 The ships carried {{convert|23|-|25|t|LT|sp=us}} of coal.Campbell, p. 362
The monitors were equipped with one {{convert|240|mm|in|sp=us|1|adj=on}} M/69 rifled breech loader, mounted in a long, fixed, oval-shaped gun turret. The gun weighed {{convert|14670|kg|sp=us}} and fired projectiles at a muzzle velocity of {{convert|397|m/s|ft/s|abbr=on}}. At its maximum elevation of 7.5° it had a range of {{convert|3500|m|yd|sp=us}}.Bojerud, p. 177 The Hildurs also mounted two {{convert|75|mm|in|sp=us|adj=on|0}} guns. They were rearmed with a {{convert|120|mm|in|1|sp=us|adj=on}} quick-firing gun as well as three {{convert|57|mm|in|sp=us|1|adj=on}} quick-firing guns sometime in the 1890s or the early 1900s.
The Hildur class had a complete waterline armor belt of wrought iron that was {{convert|76|mm|in|1|sp=us}} thick with a {{convert|19|mm|in|1|sp=us|adj=on}} deck. The face of the gun turret was protected by {{convert|418|mm|in|1|sp=us}} of armor, while its sides were {{convert|356|mm|in|sp=us|0}} thick. The conning tower protruded from the top of the turret and was protected by {{convert|254|mm|in|0|sp=us}} of armor.Harris, pp. 31–32
Construction and service
Sölve, named after Sölve, a semi-legendary King of Sweden, was launched in 1875 by Motala Verkstad at Norrköping. She was decommissioned in 1919 and was converted into an oil barge after she was sold. The ship was acquired by the Gothenburg Maritima Centrum from Mobiloil in 1992. It has been partially restored and is currently moored at the Maritiman marine museum in Gothenburg.{{cite news| title=Monitoren Sölve| publisher=Maritiman marine museum| url=http://www.maritiman.se/default.asp?viewset=1&on=Fartygsflottan&id=&initid=52&heading=Fartygsflottan&mainpage=templates/05.asp?sida=44| work=maritiman.se| access-date=2008-04-08| language=sv| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070709220336/http://www.maritiman.se/default.asp?viewset=1&on=Fartygsflottan&id=&initid=52&heading=Fartygsflottan&mainpage=templates%2F05.asp%3Fsida%3D44| archive-date=2007-07-09}}
Notes
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References
- {{cite journal |last=Bojerud|first=Stellan|author-link=Stellan Bojerud |year=1986|title=Monitors and Armored Gunboats of the Royal Swedish Navy, Part 1 |journal=Warship International|publisher=International Naval Records Organization|volume=XXIII|issue=2|pages=167–180|issn=0043-0374}}
- {{cite book |title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905 |editor1-last=Chesneau |editor1-first=Roger |editor2-last=Kolesnik |editor2-first=Eugene M. |publisher=Conway Maritime Press |location=Greenwich |year=1979 |isbn=0-8317-0302-4 |name-list-style=amp |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/conwaysallworlds0000unse_l2e2|chapter=Sweden|author1-last=Campbell|author1-first=N. J. M.|pages=360–363}}
- {{cite book|title=Warship 1994|editor=Roberts, John|chapter=The Swedish Monitors|author=Harris, Daniel G.|author-link=Daniel Gibson Harris|pages=22–34 |publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|year=1994|isbn=1-55750-903-4}}
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Category:Hildur-class monitors
Category:Ships built in Norrköping
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