HMS Göta Lejon

HMS Göta Lejon
HMS Göta Lejon
Career (Sweden) Swedish Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Göta Lejon
Builder: Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstads AB, Gothenburg
Laid down: 27 September 1943
Launched: 17 November 1945
Commissioned: 15 December 1947
Out of service: 1 July 1970
Motto: Nemo me impune lacessit
("No one provokes me with impunity")
Fate: Sold to Chile, renamed Almirante Latorre
Badge: HMS Göta Lejon vapen.svg
Career (Chile) Naval Ensign of Chile
Name: Almirante Latorre (CL-04)
Commissioned: 1971
Decommissioned: 1984
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type: Tre Kronor-class cruiser
Displacement: 8,200 long tons (8,332 t) standard
9,200 long tons (9,348 t) full load
Length: 182 m (597 ft 1 in)
Beam: 16.7 m (54 ft 9 in)
Draft: 5.7 m (18 ft 8 in)
Propulsion: 2 shafts
Speed: 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Complement: 445
Armament: As built :
• 7 × Bofors 152 mm guns
• 20 × Bofors 40 mm guns
• 9 × 20 mm guns
• 6 × torpedo tubes
From 1950 :
• 7 × 152 mm (6 in) guns
• 21 × 40 mm guns
• 6 × 20 mm guns
• 6 × torpedo tubes
Armour: Belt: 70 mm (2.8 in)
Deck: 30+30 mm (2.4 in)
Conning tower and turrets: 127 mm (5 in)

HMS Göta Lejon was the name of the last Swedish cruiser. Together with her sister ship Tre Kronor, they were the largest ships ever to serve in the Royal Swedish Navy.[citation needed] In 1971 the Göta Lejon was sold to Chile were she was renamed Almirante Latorre and served in the Chilean Navy until 1984.



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