Jötunn-class battleship

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RASVingnir1943.jpg
RAS Vingnir in 1943
Class overview
Name: Jötunn-class battleship
Operators: Acrea Royal Acrean Navy
Succeeded by: Valmeyjar-class
Planned: 4
Completed: 4
Cancelled: 0
Lost: 0
Retired: 0
Preserved: 0
General characteristics
Type: Battleship
Displacement: 73,000 tonnes fully loaded
Length: 263 m
Beam: 38.9 m
Draught: 10.4 m
Propulsion:
  • 12 × water-boilers
  • 318,000 shp
Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h)
Complement: 2,867 officers and crew
Armament:
  • 9 × 46cm guns
  • 12 × 15.5 cm guns
  • 12 x 13 cm guns
  • 80 x 40mm AA guns
  • 49 x 20mm AA guns

The Jötunn-class battleships were a class of four battleships constructed for the Royal Acrean Navy in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Designed as capital ships with a displacement of over 70,000 tonnes when fully loaded, the Jötunn-class ships are some of the largest warships ever built by Acrea, second only to 200-series aircraft carriers which began construction in the early 1960s with the Type 221-class carriers. The Jötunn-class also remains the largest class of battleships built by any nation in Tyran.

Even at the time of their construction, the Jötunn-class was not intended to form the centerpiece of Acrean naval power, but were a key part of the the Vries Doctrine of then-Naval Inspector Admiral Michel de Vries which sought a powerful, combined force of both battleships and carriers as the center of Acrean naval power. The shift towards naval aviation that consumed much of Acrea's naval staff in the 1930s was quickly reversed by Acrean observations during the Siduri War. Engagements such as the Battle of the Sabri Sea reinforced the continued need for increasingly stronger battleships, leading to the construction of four additional Varde-class battleships by 1940 and the designing of both the Jötunn-class and its successor, the Valmeyjar-class.


Design

Armament

Armour

Propulsion

Construction

Service History

Units

# Hull Name Shipyard Laid down Launched Commissioned Fate
I BB401 RAS Jötunn Vänersköping Naval Yard 1937 1940 1941 Preserved as a museum ship
II BB402 RAS Vingnir Carcassonne Naval Yard 1938 1940 1941 Preserved as a museum ship
III BB411 RAS Vidicus Vänersköping Naval Yard 1938 1941 1942 Preserved as a museum ship
IV BB412 RAS Aeron Carcassonne Naval Yard 1938 1941 1942 Preserved as a museum ship