HSwMS Klas Uggla
Picture of the Swedish destroyer HSWMS Klas Uggla | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Sweden | |
| Name | Klas Uggla |
| Builder | Karlskronavarvet, Karlskrona |
| Launched | 18 June 1931 |
| Commissioned | 27 September 1932 |
| Stricken | 30 June 1942 |
| Identification | Pennant number: 4 |
| Fate | Sunk by an explosion, 17 September 1941, and subsequently scrapped |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class & type | Klas-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 1,020 long tons (1,036 t) (standard) |
| Length | 92.4 m (303 ft 2 in) (o/a) |
| Beam | 8.9 m (29 ft 2 in) |
| Draught | 2.6 m (8 ft 6 in) |
| Installed power | |
| Propulsion | 2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines |
| Speed | 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) |
| Range | 1,600 nmi (3,000 km; 1,800 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement | 130 |
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Klas Uggla was one of two Klas-class destroyers built for the Royal Swedish Navy during the 1930s. Completed in 1932, she conducted neutrality patrols during World War II before she was sunk by an explosion in 1941. Her wreck was subsequently scrapped.