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FIGHTING SHIPS OF THE WORLD
SWEDEN
TORPEDO SHIPS
MODE coastal destroyers (1942-1943)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Mode 29, 1955- 73, 1966- F73   Götaverken, Göteborg 9.1941 11.4.1942 11.1942 stricken 7.1970
Magne 30, 1955- 74, 1966- F74   Götaverken, Göteborg 9.1941 25.4.1942 11.1942 stricken 1.1966
Munin 31, 1955- 75, 1966- F75   Öresundsvarvet, Landskrona 9.1941 27.5.1942 1.1943 stricken 12.1968
Mjölner 32, 1955- 76, 1966- F76 329 Eriksberg, Göteborg 9.1941 9.4.1942 12.1942 stricken 4.1966


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

750

Displacement full, t

960

Length, m

78.0 oa

Breadth, m

8.10

Draught, m

2.30 mean 2.70 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 sets de Laval geared steam turbines, 2 3-drum boilers

Power, h. p.

16000

Max speed, kts

31

Fuel, t

oil 190

Endurance, nm(kts)1200(20)
Armament

3 x 1 - 105/48 K/50 M42, 2 x 1 - 40/56 K/60 M36, 2 x 1 - 20/63 K/66 M40, 1 x 3 - 533 TT, 2 DCT, 42 mines

Electronic equipmentpresumably hydrophone
Complement

100



Standard scale images


<i>Mjölner</i> 1944
Mjölner 1944
<i>Mode </i>1960
Mode 1960


Project history

The design was developed on the basis of purchased in March, 1940 in Italy Spica class torpedo boats. Changes were brought basically to replacement of Italian equipment and armament by Swedish, and also to insignificant increase in a hull beam for improvement of seagoing capacities.

Modernizations

1954-1955, all: - 1 x 1 - 105/50, 1 x 3 - 533 TT; + 1 x 3 - 305 Squid Mk 4 ASWRL, radars, sonar

Naval service

All ships were re-rated as frigates in 1954-1955.