HSwMS Garmer
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HSwMS Garmer was a small river monitor built for the Swedish Royal Skerry Artillery in the mid-1860s. She was designed to operate on the Swedish canals and lakes as well as in the shallow waters of the coast. The ship's captain had to steer the ship as well as aim and fire her gun. Garmer was sold for scrap in 1893.
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Sweden | |
Name | Garmer |
Namesake | Garmr |
Builder | Motala Verkstad, Norrköping |
Launched | 1867 |
Completed | 1868 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 1893 |
General characteristics | |
Type | River monitor |
Displacement | 271 t (267 long tons) (deep load) |
Length | 28.5 m (93 ft 6 in) |
Beam | 6.98 m (22 ft 11 in) |
Draft | 2.29 m (7 ft 6 in) |
Installed power | |
Propulsion | 1 shaft, 1 Vibrating-lever steam engine |
Speed | 5.5 knots (10.2 km/h; 6.3 mph) |
Complement | 20 |
Armament | 1 × 267 mm (10.5 in) smoothbore gun |
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