HSwMS Sverige : 無料・フリー素材/写真
HSwMS Sverige / hugh llewelyn
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| 説明 | A model of Armoured Ship HSwMS Sverige at the Swedish Maritime Museum, Stockholm, June 2010. Three ships were completed (and one cancelled) in 1918-22 with the last two to a slightly updated design. They were the largest ships to have served in the Swedish Navy up until that time. They were heavily modernised/reconstructed, each in slightly different ways, in the 1930’s. They weighed 7,125 tons (7,900 tons after reconstruction) and measured 390 or 400 ft x 61 ft x 21 ft. Their armament as built consisted of 4x11” (2x2), 8x6” (2x1, 6x1), 2x3” AA, 2x57mm AA guns and 2x18” torpedo tubes. Their secondary armament of 6” guns were in turrets at a time when other navies had such guns in casemates, so was a big step forward in design terms. When rebuilt each had differing secondary armament but all with greatly enhanced AA armament whilst the TT were removed. They were also fitted with oil-burning boilers which increased their speed from 22.5 kts to 23 kts. Although Sweden was neutral in WWI, in 1918 the Sverige (the only one of her class in service at that time), with the older and smaller HSwMS Oscar II, took the Aland Islands from Russia, then still in revolutionary turmoil.Although usually described as coastal defence battleships outside Sweden, such a description does not do the Sverige class justice. The Swedish classification was Armoured Ship – the same as the German Navy described their ‘pocket battleships’ of the Deutschland class of the 1930’s. And there were many similarities between the two: They were both cruiser size but much more heavily armoured and armed – more akin to battleships in this regard – and, although slower than contemporary cruisers, they were faster than battleships of the era (The Severiges could o 23.5 kts, the German SMS Baden 21 kts). The main difference was that the Deutschlands were lone commerce raiders that would roam the oceans whilst the Sveriges were intended to be part of an integrated battle group with cruisers, destroyers and torpedo boats in the Baltic (and not just the coast). Here their modest size and shallow draft made them ideal for the myriad of islands and skerries (islets) in the Baltic where larger battleships and battlecruisers would be at a tactical disadvantage and easy prey for the Swedish torpedo craft accompanying the Armoured Ships whilst enemy cruisers would be no match for the heavy guns and armour of the Armoured ships. This was the very reason when in WWII, with the three modernised Sveriges still regarded as very effective units, Germany decided not to invade Sweden in 1940 because the threat these ships would pose to any invasion force. The German capital ships, and even the large Hipper Class heavy cruisers, would have been at a distinct disadvantage to the Swedish fleet, modest though it was. The Sveriges were, indeed, ‘pocket battleships’ themselves. |
| 撮影日 | 2021-01-27 16:04:01 |
| 撮影者 | hugh llewelyn , Keynsham, UK |
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| 撮影地 | Oscar, Stockholm, Sweden 地図 |