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Old 15th September 2003, 22:33
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I found some pictures on the net of old Swedish pre- and post WW2 warships, I thought that it might be suiting for the 'History' topic.

Destroyer HMS Oscar II



Cruiser HMS Fylgia



Destroyer HMS Ehrensköld



Cruiser HMS Göta Lejon



Aircraft carrier HMS Dristigheten



Battleship HMS Sverige



Mine cruiser HMS Älvsnabben



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Old 15th September 2003, 23:08
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Cool where did you find them? I hade no idea tha Sweden have had a aircraft carrier.
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Old 15th September 2003, 23:16
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That's easy. You can just 'Google' it, or do a search on it on warships1.com .

I didn't know either that Sweden had an aircraft carrier at first, but when I knew, I thought that it was pretty cool.
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Old 16th September 2003, 16:56
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What am I doing here?
Maybe it is a matter of definition. Obviously it is a carrier with an aircraft on it... what am I trying to say? Well, it is cool any way.

I guess I mean, like, uh... it carries planes but I guess any battle ship could do that? But then again, it is a specific carrier for aircrafts, which is cool.

Ok now, never mind me. Carry on.

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Old 16th September 2003, 18:33
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Re: What am I doing here?
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Maybe it is a matter of definition. Obviously it is a carrier with an aircraft on it... what am I trying to say? Well, it is cool any way.

I guess I mean, like, uh... it carries planes but I guess any battle ship could do that? But then again, it is a specific carrier for aircrafts, which is cool.

Ok now, never mind me. Carry on.

Battleships carrying planes..?
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Old 16th September 2003, 20:48
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Well, these planes are used for reconisance, theres no landing strip. They splash down next to the ship and then lifted with a crane to its old location.

Not really a "aircraft carrier", but its the first steps towards one.
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Old 16th September 2003, 21:09
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It's a ship. It carries aircrafts. It's an aircraft carrier.
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Old 16th September 2003, 21:36
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Lonely

If you are interested in swedish "aircraft carriers", try search the internet for info on HMS Gotland.

"Battleships carrying planes..?"

Until the introduction of radar almost all major warships, battleships and heavy cruisers, carried two to three reconnaissance aircrafts that was launched by way of steam catapult.

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Old 16th September 2003, 21:52
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Damn. I was wrong. Now I have to lock myself into my basement and slap myself silly with a hard-bottomed shoe.
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Old 16th September 2003, 22:56
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Hello Niquie

Thank you for the warm welcome, it´s nice to see you to.

What can I say? I´m just so darn lazy.


Lonely

When you are through doing that shoe thing of yours then do try to check out the Gotland. It really was a very interesting ship, I promise.


Regards Thomas
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Old 17th September 2003, 10:44
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Well lonely, you see my "problem": What defines a air fighter carrier -that it carries planes or that the ships can land and take-off from it? The whole issue stuck to my brain and took all energy that was in it. I got obsessed with thoughts about different types of carriers.

But I still claim: Never mind me, I was just rambling on. Really.
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Old 19th September 2003, 12:36
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I have a old "Air Force" (Sveriges Försvar - Flygvapnet) book from my grandfather.. It has that weird looking HMS Dristigheten in it, at least it looks like it.

I think they launch the plane via a catapult or something.. Does not sound very safe to me.
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Old 19th September 2003, 15:22
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Hmmm... like a plane-launcher... Now, for me this reminds me of the good ole´ PiS-project that we have discussed here on the boards before...

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Old 19th September 2003, 21:21
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PiS-project?
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Old 19th September 2003, 23:36
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If you are interested I scanned the info that I found about "katapultflygplan" in my old Air Force book.



Some info (Swedish text) http://w1.480.telia.com/~u48019256/foto/flygplan2.jpg
Page 2 on that info (still Swedish Im afraid ) http://w1.480.telia.com/~u48019256/foto/flygplan3.jpg

Some nice images http://w1.480.telia.com/~u48019256/foto/flygplan4.jpg
http://w1.480.telia.com/~u48019256/foto/flygplan5.jpg
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