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Friday, 8 December 2017

Swedish mine cruiser Clas Fleming modernized according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1939 no. 10

An item reported that the Swedish cruiser Clas Fleming was to be fitted out with new machinery including boilers, her armament modernized and her mine storage enlarged.(1)

Note
1. Mine cruiser Clas Fleming, building ordered in 17 May 1910, launched by Bergsund Finnboda, Stockholm, Sweden on 14 December 1912, commissioned in February 1914, overhauled in 1939-1940, stricken in January 1959 and then sold to be broken up.