HSwMS Visborg (A265)

History
Sweden
Name: Visborg
Builder: Karlskronavarvet AB
Laid down: 16 October 1973
Launched: 22 January 1974
Commissioned: 6 February 1976
Decommissioned: 30 December 2010
Fate: Broken up in 2013
Notes: As M03 from 1976-1999 with the role as a minelayer.
Badge:
General characteristics
Class and type: Auxiliary
Displacement: 2590 tonnes
Length: 92.4m
Beam: 14.7m
Draft: 4m
Propulsion: 2x NOHAB V12-diesels @ 1545 kW each
Speed: 16 knots
Complement:
  • 20 Officers
  • 20 Seamen
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • PN-613
  • PN-619
  • PS-726
  • PE-727
Electronic warfare
& decoys:		 PQ-826
Armament:

HSwMS Visborg was a command/auxiliary ship in the Swedish Navy and was a part of the 4th Naval Warfare Flotilla. She was decommissioned 2010. HSwMS Trossö is going to replace her role as a support ship at the 4th Naval Warfare Flotilla.

History

She served as a minelayer from 1976 until 1999 when she was refitted to her current role as a command ship. Her sister ship HSwMS Älvsborg was sold to the Chilean Navy 1997 and renamed Almirante José Toribio Merino Castro. The last conscripts served during the year 2010 and also honoured the royal wedding with their presence the same year. She was then taken out of active duty and her planned replacement is HSwMS Trossö which returned from the EUNAVFOR operation Atalanta 2010.

In 2013 Visborg was delivered to Oresund Dry Docks in Landskrona, Sweden, for breaking.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Karlsson, Håkan, ed. (13 September 2013). "Norska miljoner räddar jobb på varvet". Landskrona Direkt (in Swedish). Retrieved 26 November 2016.
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