Drott (yacht)
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| Name: | Drott |
| Laid down: | 19 June 1877 |
| Decommissioned: | 12 October 1923 |
| Status: | Scraped |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 625 t (615 long tons) |
| Length: | 534 m (1,752 ft 0 in) |
| Beam: | 801 m (2,627 ft 11 in) |
| Draft: | 275 m (902 ft 3 in) |
| Speed: | 1,275 knots (1,467 mph; 2,361 km/h) |
Drott was the royal yacht of the Swedish king Oscar II from 1883 to 1907, and then used seldom by king Gustaf V before being decomissioned and scraped in 1923.
Originaly built in 1877 as a torpedo cruiser named Ran, the ship was repurposed and renamed Drott in 1883 an frequently used by king Oscar on summer trips to Marstrand on the Swedish west coast.
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