HSwMS Wale

History
Sweden
Name	Wale
Namesake	Váli
Builder	Kockums
Launched	21 September 1907
Completed	11 April 1908
Out of service	18 October 1940
Fate	Sunk as target on 26 September 1946
General characteristics
Displacement	350 long tons (356 t) tons
Length	66.1 m (217 ft)
Beam	6.3 m (21 ft)
Draught	1.7 m (5.6 ft)
Propulsion	4-cyl vertical triple expansion, 4xYarrow boiler 7,200 shp (5,369 kW)
Speed	30 knots (35 mph; 56 km/h)
Complement	69
Armament	2 × 75 mm (3.0 in)/53cal. gun ; 4 × 57 mm (2.2 in)/55cal. gun; 2 × 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes M/02-04;

HSwMS Mode, Magne and Wale

HSwMS Wale (3) was a destroyer of the Swedish Navy. Wale was built by Kockums Shipyard and launched on September 21, 1907 and delivered to the fleet on 11 April 1908. The vessel was based on the two former British-built destroyers HSwMS Mode and HSwMS Magne. Wale was the first destroyer to be built in Sweden and was influential in the development of the destroyers in that nation. After Wale, in the years 1907–1911, another five destroyers followed with essentially the same design. These were two ships of the Hugin class and three ships of the Ragnar class. Wale was decommissioned on 18 November 1940. She was sunk as a target outside Fårösund by the Swedish Coastal Artillery and the HSwMS Sundsvall on 26 September 1946.^[1]

References[]

Notes[]

^ Olsson, Kjell. "HMS Wales sista strid utanför Gotland" [HSwMS Wale's last battle outside Gotland]. www.tjelvar.se (in Swedish). Gotlands försvarshistoria och Gotlands trupper. Retrieved 31 October 2017.

Print[]

Borgenstam, Curt; Insulander, Per; Kaudern, Gösta (1989). Jagare: med Svenska flottans jagare under 80 år (in Swedish). Västra Frölunda: Marinlitteratur. ISBN 91-970700-4-1. SELIBR 7792227.
Hofsten, Gustaf von; Waernberg, Jan; Ohlsson, Curt S. (2003). Örlogsfartyg: svenska maskindrivna fartyg under tretungad flagg. [Forum navales skriftserie, 1650-1837 ; 6] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Svenskt militärhistoriskt bibl. i samarbete med Marinlitteratur. ISBN 91-974384-3-X. SELIBR 8873330.

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[1] Olsson, Kjell. "HMS Wales sista strid utanför Gotland" [HSwMS Wale's last battle outside Gotland]. www.tjelvar.se (in Swedish). Gotlands försvarshistoria och Gotlands trupper. Retrieved 31 October 2017.

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v t Swedish naval ship classes of World War II
Coastal defence ships	Dristigheten^S Äran Oscar II^S Sverige
Armoured cruisers	Fylgia^S
Light cruisers	Gotland^S Tre Kronor^I
Protected cruisers	Clas Fleming^S
Minelayers	Älvsnabben^S
Destroyers	Wale^S Ragnar Hugin Wrangel Ehrensköld Klas Göteborg Sella^RM Romulus^RM Mode Visby Öland^I
Torpedo boats
Submarines	^S Neptun
Minesweepers
Patrol boats
S Single ship of class RM Purchased from Regia Marina I Incomplete until the end of the war

History

Sweden
Name	Wale
Namesake	Váli
Builder	Kockums
Launched	21 September 1907
Completed	11 April 1908
Out of service	18 October 1940
Fate	Sunk as target on 26 September 1946
General characteristics
Displacement	350 long tons (356 t) tons
Length	66.1 m (217 ft)
Beam	6.3 m (21 ft)
Draught	1.7 m (5.6 ft)
Propulsion	4-cyl vertical triple expansion, 4xYarrow boiler 7,200 shp (5,369 kW)
Speed	30 knots (35 mph; 56 km/h)
Complement	69
Armament	2 × 75 mm (3.0 in)/53cal. gun 4 × 57 mm (2.2 in)/55cal. gun 2 × 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes M/02-04