HMS Småland (J19)

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HMS Småland
Career (Sweden) Swedish Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Småland
Operator: Swedish Navy
Builder: Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstads AB, Gothenburg
Laid down: 1951
Launched: 23 October 1952
Commissioned: 12 January 1956
Decommissioned: 1979
Out of service: 1 July 1984
Identification: J19
Fate: Museum ship in Gothenburg
General characteristics
Class and type: Halland class destroyer
Type: Destroyer
Displacement: 3344 tons
Length: 121 m
Beam: 12.6 m
Draft: 5.5 m
Propulsion: 2 × Steam Turbines
Speed: 35 knots
Crew: 259
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 carried: 1 × Helicopter

HMS Småland (J19) is a Swedish Halland-class destroyer. She and HMS Halland were the only ones built of their class. Two more ships were ordered but they were never completed.

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

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