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44: 50: 399:. The M/69 gun weighed 14,670 kilograms (32,340 lb) and fired projectiles at a muzzle velocity of 397 m/s (1,300 ft/s). At its maximum elevation of 7.5° the gun had a range of 3,500 meters (3,800 yd). During the late 1870s 287:
Artillery in the late 1860s. She was equipped with a dual propulsion system, both hand and steam-driven, although the hand-driven portion was removed early in the ship's career due to complaints from the crew. The ship was put into
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to defend the inner 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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s most unusual feature was that John Ericsson designed, and had built in New York City, a combined hand and steam propulsion system. Seats for 24 rowers were placed in front of the
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in 1873. The ship's crew did not appreciate the hand-driven propulsion system; they had not joined the navy to be "galley slaves" and the system was soon removed.
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and boiler and the rowers used levers and a crank connected to the propeller shaft to turn it fast enough to move the ship at a speed of 1.5
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was placed in reserve in 1890 and sunk as a target in 1907. Curiously, the ship never once navigated the Göta Canal system in her career.
384:(2.8 km/h; 1.7 mph). The ship also had a single horizontal 2-cylinder steam engine that was powered by a single semi-circular 645: 621: 602: 580: 411:. The machine gun weighed 115 kilograms (254 lb) and had a rate of fire of 500 rounds per minute. Its projectiles had a 441:'s armor was 220 millimeters (8.7 in) thick on its face and 93 millimeters (3.7 in) on the sides and rear. The 395:
gun, mounted in a long, fixed, oval-shaped turret, before being rearmed in 1870 with a 240-millimeter (9.4 in) M/69
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protruded from the top of the turret and was protected by 178 millimeters (7.0 in) of armor.
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and Lieutenant John Christian d'Ailly. The ship measured 31.93 meters (104 ft 9 in)
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Bjoerud, Stellan (1986). "Monitors and Armored Gunboats of the Royal Swedish Navy, Part 1".
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Campbell, N. J. M. (1979). "Sweden". In Chesneau, Roger & Kolesnik, Eugene M. (eds.).
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of 386 m/s (1,270 ft/s) and a maximum range of 900 meters (980 yd).
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The ship was briefly armed with a single 267-millimeter (10.5 in) M/66
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Harris, Daniel G. (1995). "Warship Note". In Roberts, John (ed.).
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received a 10-barreled 12.17-millimeter (0.479 in) M/75
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of 2.31 meters (7 ft 7 in) and displaced 250
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to establish the Royal Skerry Artillery as part of the
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Index

HMS Sköld

Sweden
Shield
Stockholm
monitor
t
long tons
deep load
fire-tube boiler
steam engine
knots
smoothbore
Belt
Gun turret
Deck
Conning tower
river monitor
Skerry
reserve
Baltzar J. van Platen
Riksdag of the Estates
Swedish Army
Göta Canal
Gothenburg
Swedish
Söderköping
Baltic Sea
John Ericsson
long overall

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