P04 HMS Carlskrona |
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| Career (Sweden) | |
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| Name: | HMS Carlskrona |
| Builder: | Karlskronavarvet, Karlskrona |
| Launched: | 28 June 1980 |
| Commissioned: | 11 January 1982 |
| Identification: | Pennant number: M04 (1980 - 2009) P04 (2009 - present) |
| Status: | Operational |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Patrol vessel |
| Displacement: | 3,800 tonnes (3,740 long tons) |
| Length: | 105.7 m (346 ft 9 in) |
| Beam: | 15.2 m (49 ft 10 in) |
| Draft: | 4.7 m (15 ft 5 in) |
| Speed: | 20 knots (23 mph; 37 km/h) |
| Complement: | 45 officers 40 cadets 85 conscripts |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
2x Fire control radars with IR/TV sights |
| Armament: | 1 × Bofors 57 mm 2 × Bofors 40 mm Mines |
| Aircraft carried: | 1 x AW109LUH (HKP15B) |
| Aviation facilities: | 1 spot |
HMS Carlskrona is the largest vessel in the Swedish Navy with 105,7 meters (346,8 ft). Second largest is Belos, the submarine rescue vessel, with 104,9 meters (344,2 ft). She was originally designed as a minelayer also used for exercise expeditions. She replaced HMS Älvsnabben in both roles.
During the cold war, large minelayers like Carlskrona were very important in the Swedish defense strategy, causing the ship to be without a role after the restructuring of the Swedish armed forces in the early 2000's.
Carlskrona was refitted in 2002. The refit left the ship fit for active service until at least 2018-20. Shortly thereafter she was decommissioned. In 2009-2010 she was modified for the Ocean Patrol Vessel (OPV) role and redesignated from M to P (P04). Carlskrona took part in the EUNAVFOR operation in the Gulf of Aden (Somalia) in 2010.[1] She left the naval base at Karlskrona, Sweden on the March 13 2010, and commenced her mission as HQ ship for the EU operation on April 15.[2]
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