HSwMS Malmö (P12)
Swedish Stockholm-class corvette
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HSwMS Malmö (P12) is a patrol vessel belonging to the Swedish Navy. Together with her sister ship HSwMS Stockholm, she formed the Stockholm class. In 1999 she was set to begin her mid-life upgrade and in 2010 she was merged into the 31st Corvette Division of the 3rd Naval Warfare Flotilla along with her sister ship. In 2017, Malmö was rebuilt into a Malmö-class patrol vessel.
HSwMS Malmö | |
| History | |
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| Name | Malmö |
| Namesake | Swedish city Malmö[1] |
| Builder | Karlskronavarvet, Karlskrona[1] |
| Laid down | 14 March 1983 [1] |
| Launched | 22 March 1985 [1] |
| Commissioned | 10 May 1985 [1] |
| Reclassified | 2017 |
| Home port | Karlskrona, Sweden[1] |
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| Status | in active service[1] |
| Badge |  |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Stockholm-class corvette |
| Displacement | 380 tonnes (374 long tons) [1] |
| Length | 50 m (164 ft 1 in) [1] |
| Beam | 7.5 m (24 ft 7 in) [1] |
| Draft | 2.6 m (8 ft 6 in) [1][2] |
| Speed | 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) [1] |
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History
Malmö was built by Karlskronavarvet and was launched on 21 Mars 1985. After trials the ship was delivered to the Navy on 8 November 1985, and then became the command ship for one of the then surface warfare flotillas.[3]