HSwMS Visborg (A265)

300px HSwMS Visborg during the wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Daniel Westling.
History
Sweden
Name:	Visborg
Builder:	Karlskronavarvet AB
Laid down:	16 October 1973
Launched:	22 January 1974
Commissioned:	6 February 1976
Decommissioned:	30 December 2010
Notes:	As M03 from 1976-1999 with the role as a minelayer.
Badge:	100px
General characteristics
Class & 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:	3 × Bofors 40mm m/48 4 Machinegun groups

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 March 2013 scrapping begun and the process is to be finished by December 2013.

References

• 4th Naval Warfare Flotilla - HMS Visborg (Swedish)
• Örlogsboken 2003 (Swedish)