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Saturday, 12 January 2019

New design for Swedish avisos 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 avisos had a displacement of 835 tons and as dimensions 83,8 x 8,1 x 2,2 metres. With a horsepower of 11.500 ihp was the speed 30 knots while the maximum coal bunker capacity of 222 tons allowed a range of 3.000 miles. Armament consisted of 6-10,5cm quick firing guns, 2 machineguns and 2 surfaced torpedo tubes. Building costs 2.561.000 crones.