HNoMS Mjølner (1868)
HNoMS Mjølner, named after the hammer of the god Thor, was the fourth of five ships of the John Ericsson-class monitors built for the Royal Swedish Navy and the Royal Norwegian Navy in the mid-1860s. Influenced by the use of ironclads during the American Civil War, the design was based on that of USS Monitor. They were designed under the supervision of the Swedish-born inventor John Ericsson—coincidentally designer of Monitor—and built in Sweden. Mjølner was delivered in 1868. She ran aground the following year, without serious damage, and reconstructed in 1897 with later breech-loading guns. Mjølner was sold for scrap in 1909.
Drawing of Mjølner's sister Skorpionen | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Norway | |
| Name | HNoMS Mjølner |
| Namesake | Mjöllnir |
| Operator | Royal Norwegian Navy |
| Ordered | 1867 |
| Builder | Motala Verkstad, Norrköping |
| Cost | 1,102,000 Norwegian krone |
| Laid down | 1867 |
| Launched | 1868 |
| Completed | 7 September 1868 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1909 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | John Ericsson-class monitor |
| Displacement | 1,501 metric tons (1,477 long tons) |
| Length | 60.88 m (199 ft 9 in) |
| Beam | 13.54 m (44 ft 5 in) |
| Draft | 3.4 m (11 ft 2 in) |
| Installed power | 380 ihp (280 kW) |
| Propulsion | 1 shaft, 1 Vibrating lever steam engine, 4 cylindrical boilers |
| Speed | 6.5 knots (12.0 km/h; 7.5 mph) |
| Range | 950 nautical miles (1,760 km; 1,090 mi) |
| Complement | 80–104 |
| Armament | 2 × 270 mm (10.6 in) Armstrong guns |
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