HMS Småland

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The Swedish destroyer HMS Småland
Career
Ordered:
Laid down:	1952
Launched:
Commissioned:	1956
Decommissioned:	1979
Fate:	Museum ship in Gothenburg
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	3344 tons
Length:	121 meters
Beam:
Draft:
Propulsion:	2 × Steam Turbines
Speed:	35 knots
Range:
Capacity:
Complement:	259 men
Armament:	2 × dual Bofors 120 mm akan m/50, 1 × dual Bofors 57 mm akan m/50, 6 × Bofors 40 mm akan m/48E, 4 × dual torpedo-tubes, 1 × Robot 08A anti-ship missile, 2 × quad Bofors 375 mm aurak m/50, 58 × mines
Aircraft:	1 × Helicopter
Motto:

HMS Småland is a Swedish Halland-class destroyer. She and HMS Halland where the only ones built of their class. Two more ships were ordered but they were never completed.

She was decommissioned in 1979, and has since 1987 been a part of the Gothenburg maritime center where she is the largest vessel on display.

[edit] See also

• Royal Swedish Navy
• Swedish National Maritime Museums
• Regalskeppet Kronan