HMS Sölve monitor
Career
Name:	Sölve
Namesake:	Sölve
Builder:	Ericsson-D'Ailly
Launched:	1875
Refit:	1921
Fate:	Preserved at the Maritiman marine museum in Gothenburg, Sweden.
General characteristics
Displacement:	460 metric tons[1]
Length:	39.8 m[1]
Beam:	8 m[1]
Draught:	2.5 m[1]
Draft:	2.5 m[1]
Crew:	48 men[2]
Armor:	iron[3]

HMS Sölve is a monitor warship, built in 1875 at the Motala Warf in Norrköping, Sweden,^[1] by John Ericsson and J. C. A. d'Ailly^[3]. It is one of the only monitors still in existence, and is currently moored at the Maritiman marine museum in Gothenburg, Sweden.^[1]

The vessel was one of the last of the 15 Swedish monitors to be built for use by the Swedish Navy,^[2] and was named for Sölve, a semi-legendary King of Sweden. In 1919 the ship was placed on the sale list.^[4] It was converted into a tank barge in 1921 and was donated to the Maritiman marine museum by a scrapping shipyard after being retired from service.^[2]

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