| Career | |
|---|---|
| Class and type: | Signals Intelligence Gathering vessel |
| Name: | HMS Orion |
| Builder: | Kockums |
| Launched: | June 1984 |
| Homeport: | Karlskrona |
| Identification: | A201 |
| Status: | In active service as of 2010 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,400 tons |
| Length: | 61.2 m |
| Beam: | 11.7 m |
| Draft: | 3.8 m |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Hedemora diesels |
| Speed: | 12 knots |
| Complement: | 8 officers and 18 conscripts |
HMS Orion (A201) is a signals intelligence gathering vessel in the Swedish Navy.[1]
HMS Orion was first launched in 1984. She was built with extensive support from the United States National Security Agency.[2] In November 1985 HMS Orion was rammed by a Soviet minesweeper, after she got too close to a Soviet naval exercise.[3] In 1998 Orion received a false bomb threat, which was widely covered in the Swedish newspapers. The ship is manned by conscripts, Swedish Navy officers and personnel from the FRA (the Swedish National Defence Radio Establishment. HMS Orion belongs to the 1st Submarine division. Orion also shares the hull with Fiskeriverkets vessel Argos an official fishing control vesel.
On the 22nd. of April 2010 the government of Sweden approved the acquisition of a new ship to replace HMS Orion since it no longer meets current sea safety rules.[4]
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