Swedish Navy
Hospital Ship

VERDANDE (1st class gunboat-Urd-class)

Buildingyard: Navalyard, Karlskrona.
Keel laid: April 1876
Launched: 19/10 1878
Commissioned: 24/5 1880
1907-1909: Rebuild to a hospital-ship
1922: Demobilized
Stricken: 24/2 1928 and used as a target ship.
14/8 1929: Sunk at Huvudskar, Sweden.
Lenght: 53,64 m
Beam: 8,05 m
Draft: 2,82 m
Engine: 2 x Woolfs steamengines, 780 ihp.
Speed: 13,4 knots
Armament: 1 x 274 mm gun
                    1 x 122 mm gun
                    2 x machine guns 

 

PRINS CARL
Ex: MUNIN-40
Buildingyard: AB Finnboda M.V., Stockholm
Launched: 1931.
Delivered 1931 to Stockholms Rederi AB Svea.
1940: Sold to the Swedish Navy and converted to a hospital ship.
1949: Converted to a Radar Training Ship.
1959: Striken and laid up.
1971: Destroyed (used as a target ship)
Displacement: 2.140 tons.
Dim: 79,87 x 11,27 x 4,88 m.
Machinery: T.3-cyl.
Speed: 12 knots.
Complement: 60.