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Sunday, January 30, 2022

Swedish Minelayer/Cruiser.

 Built as a large, well-armed minelayer/cruiser of sorts, Göta Lejon could carry up to 150 heavy (300 warhead) contact mines in a hold below decks and rapidly drop them over the stern after running them down her topside deck on fitted rails. She could sow mines at 20-knots. 

The Tre Kronor class (English: Three Crowns class) was a class of two cruisers built for the Swedish Navy during World War II, comprising Tre Kronor and Göta Lejon. Tre Kronor was discarded in 1968 and Göta Lejon was sold to Chile in 1971. Renamed Almirante Latorre, she remained in service until being discarded in 1986.


 



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