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.

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

Photo: Fluff, CC BY 3.0.

The Maritiman is a floating maritime museum located in Gothenburg, Sweden. The exhibition ships is currently anchored at Packhuskajen on the Göta River. 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

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Gothenburg is Sweden's second largest city with 600,000 inhabitants, and about 1 million in the metropolitan area. The city lies on Sweden's West Coast, at the outlet of the Göta River.

Kungshöjd

Quarter

Photo: ArildV, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Kungshöjd is a quarter.

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″ north

Longitude

11.95892° or 11° 57′ 32″ east

Inception

1939

Open location code

9F9HPX55+6H

OpenStreetMap ID

way 170951575

OpenStreetMap feature

building=ship

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=ship

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=attraction

Wikidata ID

Q28936181

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In Other Languages

“Herkules” goes by many names.

Swedish: “M/S Herkules”

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