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VALKYRJEN destroyer (1896)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Valkyrjen     Schichau, Elbing, Germany 1895 1896 1896 stricken 1922


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

375

Displacement full, t

415

Length, m

58.0 pp 59.4 oa

Breadth, m

7.42

Draught, m

2.59 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 Thornycroft boilers

Power, h. p.

3300

Max speed, kts

23

Fuel, t

coal 88

Endurance, nm(kts)3800(10)
Armament

2 x 1 - 76/40 Armstrong N, 4 x 1 - 37/45 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 450 TT

Complement

59



Project history

Built in 1896 by Schichau with money collected by female patriotic organisation. Officially she was called as a divisional torpedo boat but constructively was very similar to Austrian torpedo cruisers. She was considered old and slow-speed to beginning of WWI.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.