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Sweden: Navy mothballs its largest vessel due to lack of officers
2007-09-03
The Swedish navy's largest ship, HMS Carlskrona, is to be mothballed due to a lack of officers. A decision on whether to refit, sell or scrap the minelayer will be made later in the autumn.
A minelayer is their biggest ship?
The Carlskrona returned from its most recent long voyage in 2005. Since then, it has been kept in port most of the time. A maintenance crew of eight people has kept it in working order.

The 3rd Naval Warfare Flotilla in Karlskrona currently has 43 vacancies for officers. A number of officers resigned their commissions during the summer.

The commander of the flotilla has asked the navy's top brass for permission to lay up HMS Carlskrona. This permission was granted, but it is unclear what will then happen to the ship. HMS Carlskrona was refitted in 2002 at a cost of 225 million kronor. The refit left the ship fit for active service until at least 2020.
In other news, Sweden donates 20 million kronor to save Ingmar Bergman's film prints. How depressing.
Posted by:mrp

#3  So, if you have a shortage of trained personnel, why of course you put up the ship that could train more.
Posted by: Gary and the Samoyeds   2007-09-03 21:48  

#2  I looked at hazegray.org, apparently this is a training vessel in addition to being a minelayer.

(OR, at least, was a training vessel).
Posted by: Abdominal Snowman   2007-09-03 14:52  

#1  Is this the one?
Posted by: Perfesser   2007-09-03 14:03  

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