HSwMS Berserk
HSwMS Berserk was one of seven s monitors built for the Swedish Navy in the mid-1870s. The ship had an uneventful career and was sold in 1919 for conversion into a fuel oil barge.
Design and description
The Hildur-class monitors were designed for the defense of Lake Mälaren and the Stockholm archipelago. The ships were long overall and had a beam of. They had a draft of and displaced. Berserks crew numbered 48 officers and men. The ship had rudders at bow and stern.Berserk had a pair of two-cylinder horizontal-return connecting-rod steam engines, each driving a single propeller using steam from two cylindrical boilers. The engines produced a total of which gave the monitors a maximum speed of. Hildurs carried of coal.
The monitors were equipped with one M/69 rifled breech loader, mounted in a long, fixed, oval-shaped gun turret. They were rearmed with a quick-firing gun as well as three quick-firing guns sometime in the 1890s or the early 1900s.
The Hildur class had a complete waterline armor belt of wrought iron that was thick with a deck. The face of the gun turret was protected by of armor, while its sides were thick. The conning tower protruded from the top of the turret and was protected by of armor.