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Ehrensköld 1927 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Ehrensköld	11, 1952- 71	147	Kockums, Malmö	1924	25.9.1926	9.1927	stricken 4.1963
Nordenskjöld	12, 1952- 72	220	Götaverken, Göteborg	1924	19.6.1926	9.1927	stricken 4.1963

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	974
Displacement full, t	~1160
Length, m	89.0 pp 91.4 oa
Breadth, m	8.88
Draught, m	3.80 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets de Laval geared steam turbines, 3 Penhoët boilers
Power, h. p.	24000
Max speed, kts	36
Fuel, t	oil 170
Endurance, nm(kts)	1600(20)
Armament	3 x 1 - 120/44 K/45 M24, 2 x 1 - 40/39 M22, 2 x 3 - 533 TT, 2 DCT, 2 DCR, 20 mines
Electronic equipment	presumably hydrophone
Complement	120

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Project history

Having constructed only two of four planed Wrangel class destroyers, Swedish Naval staff has cancelled the order on second pair, having put before designers the task to create the new design meeting modern requirements. Designing was conducted since 1919 till 1924 and achieved full success: Swedish Navy received a competitive destroyer at first time (all previous designs repeated foreign samples and became outdated while designed), not yielding, and in something and pre-eminent the Baltic contemporaries: only two Polish destroyers built in France could rival with Ehrensköld and Nordenskjöld, and that basically on a paper as the Swedish ships had much more quick-firing guns, besides had magnificent seaworthiness, not yielding even British ships. Perhaps, the design had only two lacks: an unsuccessful arrangement of gun No2 between funnels and having the limited turn angles, and 40mm pompoms, differing by low reliability and small fire power.

As a whole Ehrensköld class was valued in the Swedish Navy very highly and has formed a basis for building during 15 years of 14 so-called "standard" destroyers: a huge series for Sweden. Both ships were classified as fast frigates from 1951.

Modernizations

mid-1930s, both: - 2 x 1 - 40/39; + 2 x 1 - 40/56 K/60 M32

1939, both: new boilers were installed; - 2 x 1 - 40/56; + 2 x 2 - 25/55 K/58 M32

(1950-1951), both as frigates: were armed with 1 x 1 - 120/45 M24C, 2 x 2 - 40/60 M36, 1 x 1 - 20/66 M40, 8 DCT, radars, sonar

Naval service

No significant events.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.