HSwMS Tre Kronor was a cruiser built for the Royal Swedish Navy during the Second World War.
Description The Tre Kronor-class ships had an overall length of , a beam of and a draft of at deep load. They displaced was at normal load, which increased to at deep load. Four steam boilers fed steam to two geared steam turbines that each drove a single propeller shaft. The engines were rated at which gave the ships a speed of . They had a complement of 618 officers and men.Whitley, p. 225
History At the start of the war most of the ships of the Royal Swedish Navy were quite old and the navy was in need of new ships. In 1940 the government decided that three cruisers were to be built. A political debate broke out about the cruisers and works did not start until 1943. The ship was to be built in Götaverken in Gothenburg. Eventually only two of the cruisers were built, and the third cruiser-squadron of the Coastal Fleet would be led by the modernised AA-cruiser .
The turrets used on HSwMS Tre Kronor were built by Bofors and were originally ordered by the Dutch Navy to be fitted on the two De Zeven Provinciën-class cruisers, but after the German occupation of the Netherlands the Swedish government was afraid they would be claimed by the Germans so they were confiscated.
Tre Kronor was launched 16 December 1944, commissioned on 25 October 1947, and served until 1 January 1964.
Captains 1947–1948: Erik af Klint 1949–1951: Erik Friberg 1954–1954: Harry Bong 1954–1955: Magnus Starck 1955–1956: Åke Lindemalm 1956–1957: Magnus Hammar 1957–1958: Anders Nilson
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