From September 1923 to November 1924 he was the commander of Finnish Coastal Artillery.
She is operated by a civilian crew from the Ministry of the Environment, but is under Finnish Navy control.
He served as naval artillery officer in World War II, and he was one of the survivors of the sinking of the Finnish Navy flagship, the coastal defence ship Ilmarinen in 1941.
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Four ships were constructed, two of them were sold to Polish Navy where they served as General Haller and Komendant Piłsudski and the other two were commissioned into the Finnish Navy as Turunmaa and Karjala.
Later on 6 October 1944 first small squadron from Finnish Navy consisting of gunboats Hämeenmaa and Uusimaa and patrol boats VMV 15 and VMV 16 arrived to the location to both provide anti-aircraft fire and to suppress German battery located at Laivaniemi within firing distance from the port which had kept harassing the Finnish effort to unload their transports.
The name "pojama" has been carried on (in its more modern variant) as a traditional vessel name in the Finnish navy, with the current flagship named after the type.