#swedish navy

[illustratus]

The Burning of the Russian 74-gun Sewolod After she had been Engaged and Silenced by HMS Implacable, Captain T. Byam Martin, in the Baltic, 26 August, 1808 ― by Nicholas Pocock

[swedebeast]

Let us praise the almighty Swedish destroyers, the navy doesn't get enough respect.

[justabearandhisboats]

Stealth corvette K31 Visby.

25 years old and still looking sci-fi.

[lonestarbattleship]

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A 1946 proposed hangarkryssare (roughly translates to hanger cruiser) for the Swedish Navy by one of the Swedish shipbuilders. It is unique as it has two triple 15 cm (6 in) turrets that could be retracted into the flight deck.

From what I can find, the swedish Navy was trying to reestablish its Naval Aviation after it was absorbed into the Swedish Air Force in the 1920s and part of the build up during WWII. This would have been a coastal defense ship rather than a true blue water vessel. During the 1940s, propeller aircraft, and later jets, had a limited range and this vessel would have allowed the armed forces to meet an invasion before landfall or be a mobile airfield.

Obviously nothing came of this or any of the proposed Aircraft Carrier designs.

[i12bent]

Albert Berg (Sept. 19, 1832 - 1916) was a Swedish painter, who was born deaf. Despite his disability he traveled widely throughout Europe and the seven seas as a landscape and marine painter. He was trained at the Royal Swedish Academy, after which he served as a cadet in the Swedish Navy.

Upon returning to Sweden he worked to further education opportunities for the deaf, and in 1860 was appointed aggregate professor at the Academy. His art is in the best Swedish museums, including Nationalmuseum Stockholm and Göteborgs Konstmuseum.

Above: Albert Berg - Vinter i skärgården, before 1886 (oil on canvas, Göteborgs Konstmuseum)

[riidaroku]

come at me bro

[victoriansword]

Pile-O-Cutlasses

[swedebeast]

Okay, so, I found something

yeah, so, uh, for those with an interest in military technology or naval warfare, this will require a second glance. But the Swedish wording of this is "PROPOSAL FOR AIR CRAFT CARRIER CRUISER WITH 6 210MM GUNS"

So, uh, this seems to have been the pet project of one Harry Åbom who drafted this sketch in 1946 and it is not mentioned anywhere else in the Swedish navy command correspondence, except for this sketch in the war archives - seemingly it was a proposal that just never went anywhere because there was no benefit for the Swedish navy when it never went too far away from air field coverage, and if they ever wanted any carriers they could just buy them as surplus from the US or Great Britain.

Below I will present the translation (and added info for context)... and oh boy, strap yourselves in.

Guns 6: - 210 mm gun 3 barrel turret 8: - 120mm - - 2 barrel turret 30: 40mm - - two and one barrel tripod/gun pod Hull armour Above water belt: 70 and 70 mm (rear 40mm) Torpedo belt: 80 mm Flight deck and other hangar: 25mm Hangar deck: 25mm Torpedo deck: 75mm Sides and ends: 50mm PROPOSAL FOR AIR CRAFT CARRIER CRUISER With 6 210mm guns Keel length: 160m Keel width: 22m Underwater compartment: 6.1m Displacement: 12,000 tons Displacement standard: 11,500 tons Speed with 40,000 horsepower: 26 knots Air craft: 16.