Göta (1889)

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The Göta after the renovation in 1901
The Göta after the renovation in 1901
Overview
Type Coastal armored ship
Shipyard

Lindholmens Verkstad , Gothenburg

Keel laying 1888
Launch September 30, 1889
Commissioning July 1, 1891
Decommissioning October 12, 1923
Technical specifications
displacement

3097 t, maximum 3393 t

length

82 m over everything
78.8 m in the waterline

width

14.6 m

Draft

5.1 m

crew

252 men

drive

6 cylinder boilers ,
2 compound steam engines
4,700 HP , 2 screws

speed

16 kn

Armament

1 × 2-254 mm Elswick cannons in double turret,
4 × 152 mm Bofors cannons,
5 × 57 mm Maxim Nordenfeldt rapid fire guns
6 × 25 mm, 4 -barreled Palmcrantz machine guns,
4 × 25 mm Palmcrantz automatic cannons
3 × 38.1 cm torpedo tubes

Coal supply

288-300 tons

Armor

Creusot steel

Belt Armor
Tower
Barbette
Deck

198-293 mm
243-293 mm
268 mm
49 mm

The Göta , which was put into service in 1891, was the second (coastal) ironclad (Swedish Pansarskepp) in the Swedish fleet . The keel of the Göta was only laid after the Svea , which had also been built by Lindholmens Verkstad in Göteborg . The Svea class was allocated then the 1891 to 1893 on the Finnboda Varv the company Bergsunds Mekaniska Verkstads in Stockholm built Thule .
In 1901 the Göta was the first of the three ships to be completely rebuilt and re-armed. The Göta was decommissioned in 1923, but was used as a barge from 1926 and was only sold for demolition in 1938.

Building history

The Göta and the preceding Svea were built at the Lindholmens shipyard of the Motala Group in Gothenburg. The Göta , which started two years after the completion of the first seaworthy Swedish coastal armored ship, was 3 m longer than its predecessor Svea , but slightly narrower. Its propulsion system developed about 1000 hp more with 4700 hp and thus enabled a top speed of 16 kn compared to the 14.7 kn the Svea . Compared to the older ship with its composite armor, the Göta had steel armor of the Creusot type with largely the same strength. A prominent external feature of the ship was the single tubular mast with a large upper command post.

57 mm rapid fire gun on the Göta

The armament consisted of a twin turret with two 254 mm L / 34 -M.89A Elswick cannons on the foredeck as on the Svea in an older version. The medium artillery of four much more modern 152 mm L / 33 M.89 Bofors cannons and the five light 57 mm L / 48 M.89 Maxim Nordenfeldt rapid-fire guns installed on an ironclad for the first time were in the Deck structure that reached almost to the stern, built into casemates. There were also six four- barreled 25 mm L / 35 Palmcrantz M.77 automatic cannons and four single-barreled M.84 models. These machine guns from Swedish development had multi-barreled barrels arranged next to one another.
The torpedo armament of the ironclad consisted of a bow torpedo tube under water and two side tubes on deck of 38.1 cm caliber of the M.89 model.

In 1901 the Göta was the first ship of the class to be completely modernized. The other two ships in the class followed by 1904. The most significant change was the re-arming of the ships with modern Bofors guns. The front twin turret was replaced by a 21 cm L / 44 Bofors single gun M.98, which was protected by modern Krupp armor from 140 to 190 mm. The seven new single turrets of the 15.2 cm L / 44 medium artillery also had Krupp armor of 115 mm. Eleven individual 57 mm L / 55 Maxim Nordenfeldt M.89B rapid fire guns were now on board as light artillery. The two side torpedo tubes have been removed. The external impression changed due to the elimination of the long superstructure, a higher bridge and a rear command post, high spotlight positions, the removal of the tubular mast and two pole masts. The seven central artillery towers were arranged laterally just behind the bridge and next to the chimneys and the seventh tower to the rear amidships.

The 25 cm twin towers removed from the three armored ships were erected as a land battery near Aspö to defend the approach to the Karlskrona naval port .

Mission history

The Göta entered service on July 1, 1891 as the second deep-sea ironclad in the Swedish Navy . The boat had a popular female first name.

The Edda gunboat

In 1895 the Göta took part in the opening of the Kiel Canal on June 21, 1895, together with her sister ship Thule , which came into service at the end of 1893, and the small gunboat Edda (640 t, 13.5 kn) . The Swedish association had already set sail on May 18th, visited Kiel and then ran up through the canal and the Elbe to Hamburg , before starting the return journey and arriving back in Karlskrona on August 23rd.

The sister ship Thule

In 1897 the ironclad visited Great Britain to take part in the naval parade on the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee of the British Queen Victoria off Portsmouth on June 26, 1897. The Kiel Canal was used again.

In 1901 the Göta was the first of the three sister ships to undergo a major renovation . When it came back into service in 1902, it took part in attempts to use radio in front of Karlskrona. During the First World War , she then monitored the Swedish waters and was only removed from the fleet list on October 12, 1923 together with the sister ship Thule . From 1926 to 1938 the Göta was used as a residential ship. The demolition of the ship took place during the Second World War .

The Swedish coastal armored ships

Surname Launch displacement speed Main armament
3 Svea class 1885-1893 3100-3300 tons 15-16 kn lastly 1–21 cm, 7–15 cm guns
3 Oden class 1896-1898 3300-3400 tons 16.5–17 kn 1-25 cm, 6-12 cm guns
Dristigheten 1900 3550 t 16.5 kn 2-21 cm, 6-15 cm guns
4 aran class 1901-1903 3650 t 17 kn 2-21 cm, 6-15 cm guns
Oscar II 1905 4270 t 16.5 kn 2-21 cm, 8-15 cm guns
3 Sverige class 1915-1918 6850-7125 tons 22.5 kn 4–28 cm, 8–15.2 cm guns

The coastal armored ships of the Svea- class

Surname Shipyard Launch In service from Final fate
Svea Lindholmens , Gothenburg December 12, 1885 September 20, 1886 October 1915 a. D., 1921 submarine depot ship, demolished in 1944
Göta Lindholmens, Gothenburg September 30, 1889 July 1, 1891 October 1923 a. D., 1926–1938 houseboat
Thule Bergsunds , Finnboda Varv March 4, 1893 December 1, 1893 October 1923 a. D., 1926 residential ship, 1930 demolished

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