HMS Garmer
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| Name: | HSwMS Garmer |
| Namesake: | Garmr |
| Builder: | Motala Verkstad, Norrköping |
| Launched: | 1867 |
| Completed: | 1868 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap 1893 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | River monitor |
| Displacement: | 271 metric tons (267 long tons) (deep load) |
| Length: | 28.5 m (93 ft 6 in) |
| Beam: | 6.98 m (22 ft 11 in) |
| Draft: | 2.29 m (7 ft 6 in) |
| Installed power: | 90 ihp (67 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 1 shaft, 1 Vibrating lever steam engine, 1 boiler |
| Speed: | 5.5 knots (10.2 km/h; 6.3 mph) |
| Complement: | 20 |
| Armament: | 1 × 267 mm (10.5 in) M/66 smoothbore gun |
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HSwMS Garmer was a small river monitor built for the Swedish Royal Skerry Artillery in the mid-1860s. She was designed to operate on the Swedish canals and lakes as well as in the shallow waters of the coast. The ship's captain had to steer the ship as well as aim and fire her gun. Garmer was sold for scrap in 1893.
In 1865 the Navy Minister, Baltzar von Platen, persuaded the Riksdag of the Estates to establish the Royal Skerry Artillery as part of the Swedish Army to defend the inner Swedish waters and protect the flanks of Swedish fortresses. This force was to be equipped with ten small monitors to operate in shallow waters that could navigate the Göta Canal system that linked Gothenburg (Swedish: Göteborg) on the west coast to Söderköping on the Baltic Sea.
HSwMS Garmer, named after the dog Garmr from Norse mythology, was the first of these monitors. She was designed by the inventor John Ericsson and Lieutenant John Christian d'Ailly. Garmer was intended to support Karlsborg Fortress on Lake Vättern. A report to the Parliament of Sweden described her as lacking a keel, flat-bottomed amidships and had a sharp bow and stern. The ship measured 28.5 meters (93 ft 6 in) long overall and had a beam of 6.98 meters (22 ft 11 in). She had a draft of 2.29 meters (7 ft 6 in) and displaced 271 metric tons (267 long tons). Her crew numbered 20 officers and men.
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