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    The Sverige-class coastal defence ships were a class of coastal defence ships that, at the time of introduction, were the largest ships to serve in the...
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    Coastal defence ships (sometimes called coastal battleships or coast defence ships) were warships built for the purpose of coastal defence, mostly during...
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    HSwMS Sverige was a Sverige-class coastal defence ship (Pansarskepp) commissioned by Sweden during the last year of the First World War. The ship cost...
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  • coastal defence ship used by the Swedish Navy, 1915–1953 Sverige (yacht), 12-metre class yacht Sverige-class coastal defence ship, a class of ships in...
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    HSwMS Gustaf V (category Sverige-class coastal defence ships)
    Armoured Ship Gustaf V) was a Sverige-class coastal defence ship of the Swedish Navy. The vessel was the third and last ship in the Sverige class along with...
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    class was a class of coastal defence ships of the Swedish Navy. The class comprised Äran, Wasa, Tapperheten and Manligheten. The ships of the class were...
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    HSwMS Drottning Victoria (category Sverige-class coastal defence ships)
    Victoria was a Sverige-class coastal defence ship (Pansarskepp) for the Royal Swedish Navy in the 1910s. Notable commanders of the ship include Gösta Ehrensvärd...
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  • This is a list of Swedish coastal defence ships of the period 1859-1918: They are sometimes called "coast defence battleships." They were listed in the...
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  • Sverige-class coastal defence ship (3) HSwMS Drottning Victoria (1921-1957) HSwMS Gustav V (1922-1957) HSwMS Sverige (1915-1953) Äran-class coastal defence...
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    and 45 calibers used as the main battery of the Swedish Sverige-class coastal defence ships. It was designed and built by Bofors a few years before the...
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    lasting over sixty years. A development of the preceding Äran-class coastal defence ship, the ship mounted a powerful armament on a small hull, which necessitated...
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    construction of a coastal battleship for the Swedish Navy (then known as the "F-ship", which later became the Sverige-class coastal defence ship), which had...
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    HSwMS Dristigheten was a Swedish Navy coastal defence ship, and the single ship of her class. She was launched 28 April 1900. She was rebuilt as a seaplane...
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  • cancellation of the order for the coastal defence ships that were later known as the Sverige-class coastal defence ship, more than 30,000 Swedish farmers...
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  • pontoon 1956 Oscar II (1905) - stricken in 1950 and broken up 1974 Sverige class Sverige (1915) - stricken in 1953 and broken up 1958 Drottning Victoria...
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    was a weapon used as the secondary armament of the Swedish Sverige-class coastal defence ships. It was designed and built by Bofors a few years before the...
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    Coastal defence ship is a catchall category for warships with overlapping characteristics and duties, grouped here for purposes of concision and comparison...
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    HSwMS Wrangel (25) (category Wrangel-class destroyers)
    to 2 July 1923, Wrangel and her sister ship Wachtmeister escorted the three Sverige-class coastal defence ships from Karlskrona to Sheerness, England to...
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    for the Coastal Fleet's tactical behavior were tested and shaped, which were conditioned by the three new Sverige-class coastal defence ships entering...
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    Saab Kockums (category Defence companies of Sweden)
    (HDW) to offer a Visby-class corvette derivative in the American Focused Mission Vessel Study, a precursor to the Littoral Combat Ship program. It competed...
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    during the era of the Sverige-class coastal defence ships and made significant efforts to develop this type of coastal defence ship. Lindsström was born...
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    HSwMS Ehrensköld (11) (category Ehrensköld-class destroyers)
    the sister ship Nordenskjöld the coastal defence ship HSwMS Sverige during a trip to Estonia and Latvia. On board the coastal defence ship was King Gustaf...
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    led by a cruiser, instead of the existing organisation of slow coastal defence ships and small torpedo boats. In 1940, therefore, the Swedish government...
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    Harry Bong (category Commanders First Class of the Order of the Sword)
    the rank of acting sub-lieutenant. Bong served aboard the Sverige-class coastal defence ships, and he served aboard HSwMS Manligheten, HSwMS Dristigheten...
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    HSwMS Gotland (1933) (category Ships built in Gothenburg)
    1930s. Completed in 1934, she was assigned to the Coastal Fleet and also served as a training ship for naval cadets in foreign waters until the beginning...
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    People's Army (Jugoslavenska narodna armija; JNA). Organized as a coastal defence force with the main task of preventing enemy landings on its long and...
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  • 1677. Burnt 1677. Carolus XI (82), 1678. Renamed Sverige 1683, Wenden 1684, Prins Carl 1694, Sverige 1694. Discarded 1721. Drottning Ulrika (70), c. 1680...
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    Sweden (redirect from Konungariket Sverige)
    referring to one's own tribe from the tribal period. The native Swedish name, Sverige (a compound of the words Svea and rike, first recorded in the cognate Swēorice...
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    HSwMS Wachtmeister (10) (category Wrangel-class destroyers)
    2 July 1923, Wachtmeister and her sister ship Wrangel escorted the three Sverige-class coastal defence ships from Karlskrona to Sheerness, England to...
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    Öland class was a Swedish destroyer class. From 1943 to 1947, two destroyers were constructed, HSwMS Öland and HSwMS Uppland. Originally four ships were...
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