HMS Göta Lejon
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| Career (Sweden) |  |
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| Name: | HMS Göta Lejon |
| Operator: | Swedish Navy |
| Builder: | Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstads AB, Gothenburg |
| Laid down: | 27 September 1943 |
| Launched: | 17 November 1945 |
| Commissioned: | 15 December 1947 |
| Out of service: | 1 July 1970 |
| Motto: | "Ne nemo impune lassecet" (No one provokes me without being punished) |
| Fate: | Sold to Chile, renamed Almirante Latorre |
| Career (Chile) |  |
| Name: | Almirante Latorre (CL-04) |
| Commissioned: | 1971 |
| Decommissioned: | 1984 |
| Fate: | Scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Tre Kronor class cruiser |
| Type: | Cruiser |
| Displacement: | 8,200 / 9,200 tons |
| Length: | 182 metres |
| Beam: | 16.7 metres |
| Draft: | 5.7 metres |
| Propulsion: | 2 shafts |
| Speed: | 33 knots (61 km/h) |
| Complement: | 445 |
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HMS Göta Lejon was the name of the last Swedish cruiser. Together with her sister ship HMS Tre Kronor they are the largest ships ever to serve in the Swedish Navy. In 1971 the Göta Lejon was sold to Chile were she was renamed Almirante Latorre. There, she served in the Chilean Navy until 1984.
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