HMS Fylgia

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HMS Fylgia
Career (Sweden) Swedish Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Fylgia
Operator: Swedish Navy
Builder: Bergsunds Mekaniska Verkstad,
Finnboda slip
Laid down: 1903
Launched: 20 December 1905
Commissioned: 21 June 1907
Out of service: 1 January 1953
Fate: Sold for scrap in 1957
General characteristics
Type: Cruiser
Displacement: 4,310 / 4,980 tons
Length: 117 m
Beam: 14.8 m
Draft: 6.3 m
Speed: 22 knots
Range: 8000 nm at 10 knots
Complement: 332
Armament:

Design:
8 × 152 mm/50cal. Bofors M/1903
14 × 57 mm/48cal. QF cannons M/1889
(10 in casemates)
2 × 37 mm/39cal. cannons M/1898B
2 × 45 cm torpedo tubes M/1904
Mine rails (max 100 mines) WWI:
8 × 152 mm/50cal. Bofors M/1903
10 × 57 mm/48cal. QF cannons M/1889
(6 in casemates)
2 × 57 mm/55cal. AA cannons M/1889B
2 × 37 mm/39cal. cannons M/1898B
2 × 45 cm torpedo tubes M/1904
Mine rails (max 100 mines)

WWII:
8 × 152 mm/50cal. Bofors M/1903
4 × 57 mm/55cal. AA cannons M/1889B
4 × 40 mm/56cal. Bofors AA M/1936
2 × 25 mm/58cal. Bofors AA M/1932
1 × 20 mm/66cal. Bofors AA M/1940
2 × 53 cm torpedo tubes
2 depth charge throwers
Mine rails (max 100 mines)

HMS Fylgia was an armoured cruiser of the Swedish Navy. She was launched December 20, 1905 at Finnboda slip at Nacka and was used until 1953 when she was decommissioned. Her hull was sold for scrap in 1957.

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