Herkules
Herkules is a ship in Gothenburg, Domkyrkoförs. i Göteborg, Västra Götaland County. Herkules is situated nearby to M/S Fryken, as well as near HSwMS Sölve.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: ArildV, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include HSwMS Sölve and HSwMS Småland.
HSwMS Sölve
Photo: Bencoland, Public domain.
HSwMS Sölve is one of seven Hildur-class monitors built for the Swedish Navy in the mid-1870s. The ship had an uneventful career and was sold in 1919 for conversion into a barge. She became a museum ship in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1992.
HSwMS Småland
Photo: Wolfgang Fricke, CC BY-SA 3.0.
HSwMS Småland is a Swedish Halland-class destroyer. She and HSwMS Halland were the only ones built of their class. Two more ships were ordered but they were never completed. HSwMS Småland is situated 150 metres north of Herkules.
Maritiman
Museum
Maritiman is a floating maritime museum on the Göta Älv, in Gothenburg, Sweden. The museum's collection comprises 19 vessels, the oldest being HSwMS Sölve from 1875. Maritiman is situated 170 metres northeast of Herkules.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nordstaden and Gothenburg.
Nordstaden
Suburb
Photo: Jensens, Public domain.
Nordstaden is a central district of Gothenburg, Sweden, to the north of Stora Hamnkanalen and a part of Gothenburg's original city area. The district is divided by Östra Hamngatan, previously Östra Hamnkanalen, into Östra Nordstaden and Västra Nordstaden.
Gothenburg
Photo: Optiroc, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gothenburg is Sweden's second largest city with 570,000 inhabitants, and about 1 million in the metropolitan area. The city lies on Sweden's west coast, at the outlet of the Göta river.
Herkules
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: working life museum in Gothenburg Municipality, Sweden
- Categories: working life museum, ship, building, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Gothenburg, Domkyrkoförs. i Göteborg, Gothenburg Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
57.70811° or 57° 42′ 29″ northLongitude
11.95892° or 11° 57′ 32″ eastInception
1939Open location code
9F9HPX55+6HOpenStreetMap ID
way 170951575OpenStreetMap feature
building=shipOpenStreetMap feature
historic=shipOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q28936181
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In Other Languages
“Herkules” goes by many names.
- Swedish: “M/S Herkules”
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