Swedish navy

Swedish Navy

The Royal Swedish Navy is the naval branch of the Swedish Armed Forces. It is composed of surface and submarine naval units – the Fleet – as well as marine units, the so-called Amphibious Corps .In Swedish, vessels of the Swedish Navy are given the prefix "HMS," short for Hans/Hennes...

 3rd Naval Warfare Flotilla was founded in 2005 when the former Mine-layer and Surface flotillas joined together. The flotilla's home base is in Karlskrona

Karlskrona

Karlskrona is a locality and the seat of Karlskrona Municipality, Blekinge County, Sweden with 35,212 inhabitants in 2010. It is also the capital of Blekinge County. Karlskrona is known as Sweden's only baroque city and is host to Sweden's only remaining naval base and the headquarters of the...

, Blekinge

Blekinge

' is one of the traditional provinces of Sweden , situated in the south of the country. It borders Småland, Scania and the Baltic Sea.The name "Blekinge" comes from the adjective bleke, which corresponds to the nautical term for "dead calm"....

 and is a part of the Karlskrona naval base

Karlskrona naval base

Karlskrona naval base is the largest naval base of the Swedish Navy located in Blekinge in southern Sweden. The naval base has intimate ties with the city of Karlskrona. It has an exceptionally well sheltered location: arcs of islands provide a strong defense not only from the sea but also from...

. The flotilla mostly deploy ships in international missions today.

The flotilla is split in to three different divisions.

31st Corvett division

• HMS Stockholm of Stockholm class
  Stockholm class corvette
  Stockholm class corvette is a corvette class in the Swedish Navy. Built in Karlskrona 1984–1985, it is armed with eight RBS15 anti-ship missiles, torpedoes, one 57mm cannon and several machine guns. In 1999/2000 the two units in the class were upgraded in the Karlskrona shipyard Kockums...
  
  
• HMS Malmö of Stockholm class
• HMS Helsingborg corvett of Visby class.
• HMS Härnösand corvett av Visby class.
• 3 patrol boats of the Tapper class.

33rd Mine-layer division

• 2 Mine-layer ship of Koster class.
• 1 ship of Spårö class.
• 1 work ship, HMS Fårösund

34th Support division

• HMS Trossö (A264)
  HMS Trossö (A264)
  HMS Trossö is an Akademik Shuleykin-class ice-strengthened patrol craft tender in the Swedish Navy. She was built in Finland for the Soviet Navy, launched in 1984 as Arnold Veimer and renamed Livonia in 1991.- History :...
  
  

The former missile boat

Missile boat

A Missile Boat is a small craft armed with anti-ship missiles. Being a small craft, missile boats are popular with nations interested in forming an inexpensive navy...

division was stationed in the flotilla until September 2005 when all the ships was decommissioned.

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