Sverige Class Battleship - Specification As Built

Specification As Built

Displacement

• HMS Sverige
  • 6,852 tons standard;
  • 7,516 tons full load,
  • 7,080 tons - Jane's Fighting Ships 1938
    • HMS Sverige reconstructed 1932-1933

• HMS Drottning Victoria and HMS Gustav V:
  • 7,125 tons standard
  • 7,633 tons full load
  • 7,120 tons - HMS Drottning Victoria - Jane's Fighting Ships 1938
  • 7,275 tons - HMS Gustav V - Jane's Fighting Ships 1938
    • HMS Gustav V reconstructed 1929-1930, modernized 1937
    • HMS Drottning Victoria reconstructed 1935

Dimensions

• Length: 392.8 ft (119.7 m) - HMS Sverige
• Length: 396.6 ft (120.9 m) - HMS Drottning Victoria and HMS Gustav V
• Beam: 18.6 m (61 ft)
• Draught: 6.7 m (22.0 ft)

Armour

• Belt: 200/150–60 mm (7.9/5.9-2.4 in)
• Turret: 8 in. Front, 4 in. Sides, 4 3/8 in Rear
• Conning Tower: 175/100–60 mm (6.9 in)
• Deck: 1 5/8 in.
• Redoubt: 4 in.
• Barbettes: 6 in.
• Small Turrets: 5 in. Front, 3 in. Sides

Machinery

• 4 shafts; Curtis direct-coupled turbines 20,000 SHP in Sverige; 12 Yarrow type coal-fired boilers
• 2 shafts; Westinghouse Geared Turbines Manufactured by Motala Company in Gustaf V and Drottning Victoria 22,000 SHP; 12 Yarrow-type coal-fired boilers
• All ships was upgraded to oil fired boilers in the 30´ts, (In Gustaf V and Drottning Victoria it was however by strategic reasons decided to keep the ability to burn coal to secure their ability to operate on alternative fuel if the swedish oil supply was cut of)

Armament

• 4x 283 mm (11.1 inch 45 cal.) Bofors guns (2 twin turrets), load in 17 seconds, rated as cramped, dividing partition between guns
• 8x 152 mm (6 inch 50 cal.) Bofors QF guns (1 twin turret superfiring over the forward 11 inch battery, and 6 single turrets, 3 on each beam)
• 4x 75 mm Bofors AA cannons mounted forward of the rear 11 inch battery
• 2x 57 mm short-barreled Bofors cannons (6 pdr.)
• 9x 6,5 mm MG
• 2x 457 mm (18 in) TT

Armament after modernization (late 1930´ts to WW-II)

• The underwater torpedo tubes where removed, and the underwater torpedo room was converted into a artillery central to serve the installation of modern range meeters and fire control equipment for heavy, secondary and AA-gunnery
• All small gunnery and 2x152mm (6 inch 50 cal. ) was removed and replaced with modern Bofors 75mm, 40mm and 20mm Anti aircraft gunnery.
• The range of the 281 mm (11 inch) main-artillery was upgraded by new ammunition.

Complement

• 450 after reconstruction

Appearance

All three ships looked similar until reconstruction. Gustav V had funnels trunked into one and the upper works modified heavily. Sverige had the fore funnel trunked back away from the superstructure which was modified, and kept the second funnel, making the ships very different in appearance between the main turrets. "Gustav-V" also har her forward superfiring 2x152mm tower removed, and replaced with a plattform for gyro stabilized AA-artillery ( 4 x 40mm bofors) while "Sverige" and "Drottning Victoria" had their midship single 1x152mm towers removed and replaced with gyro stabilized AA-plattforms (Bofors 40mm double mountings)