WALE destroyer (1908)

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Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Wale	3	92	Kockums, Malmö	1906	21.9.1907	4.1908	stricken 10.1940

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	430
Displacement full, t	461
Length, m	65.8 wl 66.1 oa
Breadth, m	6.30
Draught, m	1.80 mean 2.80 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 4 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	7665
Max speed, kts	30
Fuel, t	coal 84
Endurance, nm(kts)	1400(12)
Armament	2 x 1 - 75/49 K/50 M05, 4 x 1 - 57/50 K/55 M89B, 2 x 1 - 450 TT
Complement	54

Standard scale images

Wale 1916

Project history

Design of Wale class destroyers represented almost exact copy of destroyer Magne, built in 1905 by Thornycroft. More strong armament consisted of two 75mm and four 57mm (instead of six 57mm) guns became unique difference from a prototype.

Modernizations

1916: - 2 x 1 - 450 TT; + 2 x 2 - 450 TT.

Naval service