HMS Clas Fleming

Career
Name: HMS Clas Fleming
Namesake: Clas Fleming
Ordered: 17 May 1910
Builder: Bergsund Finnboda, Stockholm
Launched: 14 December 1912
Commissioned: February 1914
Refit: New engines and armament 1939–1940
Struck: January 1959
Fate: Sold for scrap 1960
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type: Clas Fleming class minelayer-cruiser
Displacement: 1,550 long tons (1,575 t)
Length: 80.2 m (263 ft 1 in)
Beam: 10.4 m (34 ft 1 in)
Draft: 4.3 m (14 ft 1 in)
Propulsion: 2 shaft Parsons steam turbines, 8 Yarrow-type boilers 6,500 ihp (4,847 kW)
Speed: 20 knots (23 mph; 37 km/h)
Complement: 161
Armament: 2 × 1 - 4.7 in (120 mm) guns
190 mines
Armor: Deck: 16–25 mm (0.63–0.98 in)
Conning tower: 75 in (1,905 mm)

HMS Clas Fleming was a mine cruiser of the Swedish Navy from World War I until the Cold War. She was named after the 17th Century Swedish admiral Clas Fleming.

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