The Royal Swedish Navy goes Shipbucket
I have started to redraw my old ships into Shipbucket style and scale (just multiply the old drawings by 1,59 then you get them into Shipbucket scale (1' = 2 pixels) The first ship I have remade is...
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More excellent ships! I especially like the CGL Äran. One thing I don't quite understand though, why do you have the ships armed with both 40mm and 57mm? I don't think that 57mm mounts weigh much more...
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The 40mm guns are alot lighter than the twin, or single 57mm mounts. I also wanted to save space in the superstructure. The 40mm gun don't need to go through the deck. All the 57mm guns has elevators,...
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A now a interwar destroyer In the Swedish analysis of the battle of Jutland the navy found out that it was in need of better and especially larger destroyers that could make massed torpedo attacks....
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The first in the long line of "Nobility type" destroyers. The A - type or Adlercreutz-type. Name after the famous general of the 1808-09 war with Russia. This type started the tradition of swedish...
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Psilander wrote: The CGL Äran, Missile coversion on the slip of a ww2 heavy cruiser. Still in progress, happy for feedback From original drawing, the Talos SAM has been replaced by the Terrier SAM....
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To compensate for the rater heavy and exspensive Adlercreutx-class the smaller Bielke-class was developed to ad up some numbers. The ship was smaller and more empathis on airthreat was put into the...
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While waiting for santa a drew the Swedish gunboats, the yougest have you already seen as the Flower-class from the 1970s. The oldest are the 1.kl Kanonbåten -class (1st rate gunboat) from the 1890s....
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The last true RSwN Armoured cruiser, the Valkyria klass (Valkyrie). Even if the are in the same age as both Defence and Scharnhorst they where abit weaker. They where built under influence from de...
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Some more early 20th century history. The last Swedish predreadnought was the planned 4 ship class Dristigheten. But during the building process the HMS Dreadnought was launched. The navy decided to...
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The Colony Class was designed as standard workhorse cruiser for Swedish battlefleet aswell as colonial service. They don't feature any special designs, they where very much designed according to...
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The Finland class heavy cruisers, hard working heavy cruisers. Backbone and flagships of Swedens overseas navalstations between the wars. Named after the 4 large parts of the swedish motherland...
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The Älvsnabben-class seaplane tender, built in the 20s as bases for seaplanes on the overseas stations. The carry normally 6 light aircraft like the Fairey III and two large such as the Consolitaded...
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Regarding the homepage for this wonderful site, the links to the maps and background are not working regarding the nation of Scandinavia. Is it possible we'll see them getting repaired?
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Why would Sweden need a "colonial cruiser" ? "bases for seaplanes on the overseas stations" What overseas station ?
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Razor wrote: Why would Sweden need a "colonial cruiser" ?"bases for seaplanes on the overseas stations"What overseas station ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_colonial_empirePsilanders ships are...
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Drottning Sophia, (Drottning Margareta) Sweden Battleship laid down 1888 displacement: 12 381 t light; 13 071 t standard; 14 001 t normal; 14 745 t full load Dimensions: Length overall / water x beam...
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Is the Drottning Sophia missing its rudder?RegardsPF
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