Hildur-class monitor
Model of Hildur, the lead ship of the class | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Operators | Swedish Navy |
| Preceded by | John Ericsson class |
| Succeeded by | None |
| Built | 1870–1875? |
| Completed | 7 |
| Scrapped | 6 |
| Preserved | 1 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Type | Monitor |
| Displacement | 460 t (450 long tons) (deep load) |
| Length | 39.78 m (130 ft 6 in) |
| Beam | 8.72 m (28 ft 7 in) |
| Draft | 2.7 m (8 ft 10 in) |
| Installed power | 2 cylindrical boilers; 133 or 155 ihp (99 or 116 kW) |
| Propulsion | 2 shafts, 2 horizontal-return connecting-rod steam engines |
| Speed | 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
| Complement | 42 or 48 |
| Armament | 1 × 240 mm (9.4 in) gun |
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The Hildur-class monitors consisted of seven monitors built for the Swedish Navy in the 1870s. They were sold in 1919 and most were converted into fuel oil barges. One such ship, HSwMS Sölve, has been converted into a museum ship.