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Skagul

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Urd		16	Kockums, Malmö	8.1875	5.7.1877	10.1877	collision 22.8.1913
Verdande (ex-Verdandi)		258	Örlogsvarvet Karlskrona	4.1876	19.10.1878	5.1880	TS 1901, hospital ship 1909
Skagul			Bergsund, Stockholm	8.1877	12.8.1878	12.1878	depot ship 1923
Skuld		259	Örlogsvarvet Karlskrona		4.10.1879	9.1881	TS 1904, submarine depot ship 1916
Skäggald			Bergsund, Stockholm		7.12.1878	5.1879	submarine depot ship 1910
Rota			Bergsund, Stockholm		3.7.1878	10.1878	surveying vessel 1906, minelayer 1918, stricken 2.1928

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	533
Displacement full, t	550
Length, m	53.6
Breadth, m	8.05
Draught, m	2.82
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 HC, boilers
Power, h. p.	780
Max speed, kts	13.4
Fuel, t	coal 80
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 1 - 274/17 K/20 M1876, 1 x 1 - 122/20 K/22 M1873, 2 x 1 - 25/32 K/35 M1877
Complement	72

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Project history

Coast defence gunboats, improvement of Blenda class.

Modernizations

1880s, all: - 1 x 1 - 122/20; + 1 x 1 - 122/23 K/26 M1881

1894, Urd; 1896, Skagul; 1906, Skäggald: armoured CT with 51mm sides was fitted; - 1 x 1 - 274/17, 1 x 1 - 122/23, 2 x 1 - 25/32; + 1 x 1 - 152/30 K/32 M1889, 1 x 1 - 120/43 K/45 M1894, 2 x 1 - 57/50 K/55 M1889

1896, Rota: + 2 x 1 - 57/50 K/55 M1889

1906, Rota: disarmed

1907, Skuld: - 1 x 1 - 274/17, 1 x 1 - 122/23, 2 x 1 - 25/32; + 1 x 1 - 120/43 K/45 M94, 2 x 1 - 8.80

1918, Rota: + 1 x 1 - 57/18 K/21 M16, mines

Naval service

Urd was accidentally rammed by coastal battleship Oden in the Sound 22.8.1913.





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