
Vale Class Gunship
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Vale-class was a class of five gunships built for the Royal Norwegian Navy between 1874 and 1878. Small, nimble vessels, they were armed with a single large caliber muzzle-loading gun for offensive purposes and several small, quick firing guns for self defence.Shortly before World War I, the five vessels were rebuilt as minelayers. During this rebuild, the heavy muzzle-loading gun was replaced with a more modern 12 cm breech-loader, and on Nor and Vidar one of the 37 mm guns was replaced with a more potent 47 mm gun. Since the heavy gun and ammun...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Vale-class was a class of five gunships built for the Royal Norwegian Navy between 1874 and 1878. Small, nimble vessels, they were armed with a single large caliber muzzle-loading gun for offensive purposes and several small, quick firing guns for self defence.Shortly before World War I, the five vessels were rebuilt as minelayers. During this rebuild, the heavy muzzle-loading gun was replaced with a more modern 12 cm breech-loader, and on Nor and Vidar one of the 37 mm guns was replaced with a more potent 47 mm gun. Since the heavy gun and ammunition was removed, these diminutive vessels could carry a useful number of mines.