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Sværdfisken 1923

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Hvalrossen	1920- 13, 1923- E1, 1929- P1		Orlogsværftets, København		31.3.1913	1913	patrol boat 1929, scuttled 29.8.1943
Delfinen	1920- 12, 1923- E2, 1929- P2		Orlogsværftets, København		5.7.1913	1914	patrol boat 1929, stricken 1932
Sværdfisken	1920- 11, 1923- E3, 1929- P3		Orlogsværftets, København		25.10.1913	1914	patrol boat 1929, stricken 1932

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	169
Displacement normal, t	182
Length, m	45.2
Breadth, m	5.16
Draught, m	2.12
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 boilers
Power, h. p.	3500
Max speed, kts	26.3
Fuel, t	coal 29
Endurance, nm(kts)	685(14)
Armament	1 x 1 - 75/52 M07, 1 x 1 - 8.80, 1 - 450 TT (bow), 1 x 2 - 450 TT, 1 x 1 - 450 TT
Complement	30

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Project history

Design was developed by Danish Admiralty. For their time design was rather conservative. Prominent feature of ships was presence of single and twin TTs simultaneously.

Hvalrossen in 1929 reclassified to patrol. Under some data, bow fixed TT to the Second World War beginning has been demounted.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Hvalrossen was scuttled by crew at Copenhagen 29.8.1943 to avoid capture. Subsequently she was raised by latters, but in course of salvage works ship hull has broken apart  and her repair recognised as inexpedient.