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Saturday 26 January 2019

Armament of new Swedish destroyers improved according to the magazine Mitteilungen aus dem Gebiete des Seewesens dated 1907 No. 11

An item reported that in September 1906 a commission with as chairman rear admiral C. Olsen was appointed which had to develop a blueprint for the Swedish navy in the coming years. In January was a shipbuilding program presented in which the demands for several types of warships specified.

The destroyers were to be armed with 4-7.5cm quick firing gins and 2 machineguns. Building costs. The destroyers already in auctual service were also to receive 2 machine guns.