HSwMS Gotland (1933)
Service
- as Gotland14 December 1934 — 19562,193 days of the war
- Name
- HSwMS Gotland
- Pennant / hull number
- 1933
- Builder
- Götaverken, Gothenburg
- Ordered
- 7 June 1930
- Laid down
- 1930
- Launched
- 14 September 1933
- Commissioned
- 14 December 1934
- Decommissioned
- 1956
- Struck
- 1 July 1960
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 1962 (1962)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 4,675 long tons (4,750 t)
- Length
- 134.8 m (442.3 ft)
- Beam
- 15.4 m (50.5 ft)
- Draught
- 5.5 m (18 ft)
- Speed
- 27.5 knots (50.9 km/h, 31.6 mph)
- Range
- 4,000 nmi (7,408 km)
- Complement
- 467
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
HSwMS Gotland was a cruiser in service with the Swedish Navy. She carried the pennant number 1933. Her keel was laid at Götaverken, Gothenburg in 1930. She entered service on 14 December 1934, having been launched on 14 September 1933.
She displaced 4,675 long tons. She measured 134.8 m (442 ft) long with a beam of 15.4 m (51 ft). Her designed speed was 27.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 467.
Her main battery was two 152 mm (6.0 in) guns. She carried six aircraft. Her machinery developed 33,000 shp through two shafts.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1956. She was struck from the register on 1 July 1960.
She was broken up for scrap in 1962.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 shafts; 2 steam turbines
- Power
- 4 boilers
- 33000 shp
- Armament
- 2 × twin, 2 × single 152 mm guns
- 1 × twin, 2 × single 75 mm AA guns
- 4 × single 25 mm AA guns
- 2 × triple 533 mm torpedo tubes
- 80–100 Mines
- Armour
- Deck: 51 mm
- Gun turrets: 29 - 51 mm
- Aircraft
- 6 Hawker Osprey floatplanes
Sources
- Facts harvested from HSwMS Gotland (1933) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — This is photograph No. Fo87354C from the Naval Museum of Sweden ( Marinmuseum) collections — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons