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HDMS Gorm
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The Danish ironclad Gorm was a monitor built for the Royal Danish Navy in the 1860s. She was scrapped in 1912.
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Name | Gorm |
Namesake | Gorm the Old |
Builder | Naval Dockyard, Copenhagen |
Laid down | 18 November 1867 |
Launched | 17 May 1870 |
Commissioned | 23 June 1871 |
Decommissioned | 12 June 1912 |
Fate | Scrapped, 1912 in Stettin |
General characteristics (as completed) | |
Type | Monitor |
Displacement | 2,313 metric tons (2,276 long tons) |
Length | 71.11 m (233 ft 4 in) (o/a) |
Beam | 12.19 m (40 ft 0 in) |
Draught | 4.37 m (14 ft 4 in) |
Installed power | 1,600 ihp (1,200 kW) |
Propulsion | 2 shafts, 2 trunk steam engines |
Speed | 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph) |
Complement | 160 |
Armament | 2 × Armstrong 254 mm (10 in) rifled muzzle-loading guns |
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