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Swedish waters and protect the flanks of Swedish fortresses. This force was to be equipped with ten small monitors to operate in shallow waters that could navigate the
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and firing the gun. Sometimes there are difficulties with the engine. Since the gun is fixed, training is by the movement of the vessel."
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and delivered the following year. When the Royal Skerry
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received a 10-barreled 12.17-millimeter (0.479 in) M/75
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of 2.29 meters (7 ft 6 in) and displaced 271
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imported from New York that was powered by a single
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