HSwMS 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]

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, 26 September 1946
General characteristics
Displacement	350 long tons (356 t)
Length	66.1 m (216 ft 10 in)
Beam	6.3 m (20 ft 8 in)
Draught	1.7 m (5 ft 7 in)
Installed power	4 × Yarrow boilers 7,200 shp (5,369 kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 triple-expansion engines
Speed	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement	69
Armament	2 × single 75 mm (3 in) guns 4 × single 57 mm (2.2 in) guns 2 × single 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes M/02-04

HSwMS Mode, Magne and Wale

References

Notes

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. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. 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.
• Friedman, Norman (2011). Naval Weapons of World War One: Guns, Torpedoes, Mines and ASW Weapons of All Nations; An Illustrated Directory. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-100-7.
• 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.
• Westerlund, Karl-Eric (1985). "Sweden". In Gray, Randal (ed.). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. pp. 355–363. ISBN 978-0-85177-245-5.
• Whitley, M. J. (2000). Destroyers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. London: Cassell & Co. ISBN 1-85409-521-8.