Jacob Bagge (ship)
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 The Jacob Bagge |
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| Overview | |
| Type | Torpedo cruiser |
| Shipyard | |
| Keel laying | 1896 |
| Launch | April 30, 1898 |
| Namesake | the Admiral Jacob Bagge |
| Commissioning | November 23, 1898 |
| Decommissioning | June 13, 1947 |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
800 t, maximum 846 t |
| length |
69.0 m over everything |
| width |
8.2 m |
| Draft |
3.2 m |
| crew |
104–112 men |
| drive |
8 yarrow boilers , |
| speed |
19.5 kn |
| Range |
1200 nm at 12 kn |
| Armament |
2 × 12 cm L / 45 M94 Bofors cannons |
| Coal supply |
130 t |
The Jacob Bagge , put into service in 1898, was the third torpedo cruiser (Swedish Torpedkryssare) of the Swedish Navy and the Örnen class. More precisely, the boats would have been called torpedo cannon boats, the British versions of which they were modeled on.
In 1927 the Jacob Bagge became a depot ship for seaplanes and served in the Swedish Navy during World War II . From 1941 she was a cadet training ship. In 1947 the last two torpedo cruisers ( Örnen and Jacob Bagge ) were decommissioned. In 1951 the Jacob Bagge was scrapped.
Building history
The Jacob Bagge and her sisters were supposed to protect the armored ships of the Swedish Navy against attacks by torpedo boats. They were therefore almost pure artillery boats and no priority torpedo carriers. Her two 12 cm L / 45 Bofors M.94 rapid fire guns with protective shields and a range of 9 km and a rate of fire of up to 10 rounds per minute were on the foredeck and quarterdeck. In swallow nests next to the front chimney and behind the second chimney were four 5.7 cm L / 55 Maxim Nordenfeldt rapid-fire guns with a range of 5 km and a rate of fire of over 20 rounds per minute. In the bow, the boats still had a 38.1 cm underwater torpedo tube. The armor of the Jacob Bagge consisted of a 19 mm thick armored deck made of normal steel.
The two triple expansion machines supplied by Motala Verkstad had a combined output of 4,000 hp, and eight small water-tube boilers on the Jacob Bagge generated the necessary steam , which had actually been designed for torpedo boats .
Mission history
The Jacob Bagge came into service on November 23, 1898 as the third "cruiser" of the Swedish Navy. The boat was originally supposed to be named Tärnan , but was then named after Admiral Jakob Bagge (1502–1577), just as all four replicas of the Örnen were named after people from Swedish naval history.
As early as 1899, the Jacob Bagge took part in a fleet visit by the coastal squadron with the armored ships Oden , Thor and Niord , her sister boat Claes Horn , as well as three gunboats and seven torpedo boats in Kiel .
After the unilateral termination of the Swedish-Norwegian Union by the Norwegian Storting in June 1905, the Swedish fleet was put on alert. The political tension led to the relocation of part of the fleet to the west in order to attack the Norwegian coast and the capital, then still called Kristiania , if the conflict escalated . The Jacob Bagge belonged to this association with three sister ships. After Norwegian independence was recognized in the Karlstad negotiations , the fleet was withdrawn on October 11, 1905.
During the Balkan Wars, the Jacob Bagge was on high alert in Gothenburg from 1912 to 1913 . In 1913 she accompanied the cadet training ship Thor first to Rouen in France, then to Kingstown (today Dún Laoghaire , Ireland ), Dover , Esbjerg and finally to Saint Petersburg .
She monitored Swedish waters during World War I , and at the end of the war she was transferred to the Fleet Reserve.
In 1927 the Jacob Bagge came back into service as a depot ship for seaplanes. To make room for a seaplane ( Fairey IIID ?), The aft 12 cm gun was removed. As a possible mother ship for a squadron of seaplanes, the Jacob Bagge was kept in service until 1935. Then she became the flagship of anti-submarine vehicles. With the beginning of the Second World War , like the still existing sister ship Örnen , she was again used as a guard ship in order to prevent attacks by the belligerent powers. From 1941 the Jacob Bagge served as a cadet training ship. In 1942, the two remaining boats received two 25 mm L / 58 M32 twin flak in the aft position and gave up the four 57 mm guns. In the spring of 1945 the old torpedo cruiser was used with the Gothenburg squadron.
On June 16, 1947, the two boats that were left alone were finally decommissioned. The Jacob Bagge was scrapped in 1951.
The Örnen- class torpedo cruisers
| Surname | Shipyard | Launch | In service from | Final fate |
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| Örnen | Lindholmens , Gothenburg | August 6, 1896 | May 4, 1897 | June 16, 1947 a. D., sunk in 1950 as a target ship |
| Claes Horn | Lindbergs , Stockholm | February 9, 1898 | August 1898 | December 1923 a. D. |
| Jacob Bagge | Kockums , Malmo | April 30, 1898 | November 1898 | June 1947 a. D., scrapped in 1951 |
| Psilander | Bergsunds , Finnboda Varv | November 25, 1899 | July 1900 | July 1937 a. D., sunk as a target ship on August 3, 1939 |
| Claes Uggla | Bergsunds, Stockholm | December 9, 1899 | November 1900 | Accumulated June 22, 1917, sunk on August 30, 1917 |
literature
- Alexander Bredt (Ed.): Weyers Taschenbuch der Kriegsflotten , JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich, 35th year 1941
- B. Weyer: Taschenbuch der Kriegsflotten , JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich, 1905
- Per Insulander, Curt Borgenstam, Bertil Åhlund: Kryssare: med Svenska flottans kryssare under 75 år , CB Marinliteratur, ISBN 9789197070065
Web links
- The Örnen class
- The Jacob Bagge before renovation
- Jacob Bagge in front of Karlskrona in 1929 after renovation
- Aircraft mother ship DRISTIGHETEN and ÖRNEN after 1929
- Jacob Bagge 1944
- Långresor och utlandsbesök med svenska örlogsfartyg mellan 1837 - 2005 (Swedish)
Footnotes
- ↑ Weyer 1905, p. 95