In the early 1920s, the Royal Swedish Navy operated 10 destroyers and 29 first class torpedo boats.
The Halland class destroyers were two ships built for the Swedish Navy in the 1950s.
HMS Klas Uggla may refer to two ships of the Swedish Navy.
The building was refurbished in 1958-1959 to serve the Swedish Navy administration and the Naval Officers Society (Sjöofficerssällskapet).
The Östergötland class were a group of destroyers built for the Swedish Navy in the late 1950s.
He is historically known as one of the leading figures in the organisation of the first fleet of the Swedish Navy, both as a master shipbuilder and as a naval commander.
The first bridge to connect Skeppsholmen to the rest of the city was a wooden bridge on poles, simply called Holmbron ("The Islet Bridge") and provided with a drawbridge, constructed by the admiralty in 1638-1640 when the camp of the Swedish Navy was relocated from Blasieholmen to Skeppsholmen.
Built in 1663 as one of the first major structures the Swedish Navy constructed on the island, the length of the building still reflects its original use as a rope walk (repslagarbana), a building where strands were stretched out to be twined into ropes (the length of the building thus being of strategic importance).
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The Battle of Gangut between Swedish and Russian navies was fought in 1714 in the archipelago north of the peninsula.
There have been at least two ships of the Swedish Navy named HMS Gotland after the island in the Baltic Sea.
In 1907, Kilbom was conscripted to do military service in the Swedish Navy and he soon found himself on the navy base of Skeppsholmen in Stockholm, and stationed on the battleship Svea.
In 1766, after years that had seen the Swedish Navy being reduced, he travelled on his own expense to Brest, Flanders and Amsterdam, where he observed shipbuilding and fortress construction techniques.
Nevertheless, on 9 August 1914 Essen led part of his fleet towards Gotland to contain the Swedish navy and deliver a note of his own making which would have violated Swedish neutrality and may have brought Sweden into the war.