HMS Gustav V

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HMS Gustav V
Career Swedish Navy Ensign
Constructor Kockums, Malmö
Launched: 15 September 1917
Commissioned: 5 December 1921
Struck: 1 April 1957
Fate: Scrapped 1970
General Characteristics
Displacement: 6,842 t standard;
7,663 t full load
Length: 120.9 m waterline
121.6 m overall
Width: 18.63 m
Draft: 6.25 m
Armament: 4 × 283 mm (11 in) (2×2)
8 × 152 mm (6 in) (1×2, 6×1)
6 × 75 mm (3×2)
2 × 57 mm (1×2)
Propulsion: 12 Yarrow boilers;
2 Motala-Westinghouse geared turbines;
2 three-blade propellers
22,000 hp = 23.2 knots trials
Range: 3280 nautical miles @ 14 knots
Complement: 427

HMS Gustav V was a Sverige-class Pansarskepp of the Swedish navy.


Sverige-class coastal defence ships
Sverige | Drottning Victoria | Gustav V

List of coastal defence ships of the Swedish navy
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