Styrsö-class mine countermeasures vessel

Ship class

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Class overview
Name| Styrsö class
Builders| Kockums
Operators|  Swedish Navy
Built| 1996–1997
Completed| 4
Active| 4
General characteristics
Type| Mine countermeasures vessel
Displacement| 205 t (202 long tons)
Length| 36.0 m (118 ft 1 in)
Beam| 7.9 m (25 ft 11 in)
Draught| 2.2 m (7 ft 3 in)
Propulsion| 2 Saab Scania DSI 14
Speed| 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Complement| 10 officers and 8 ratings
Armament| 2 × 12.7 mm (0.50 in) machine guns

The Styrsö class is a series of mine countermeasures vessels in service with the Swedish Navy built from glass fibre. Among its intended missions are naval mine detection, mine hunting and patrolling. The ships are named after islands from four different archipelagos of Sweden. In 2004 HSwMS Spårö and HSwMS Sturkö were modernised, pulling out some of their capability for traditional mine clearance in favour of extended human dive support, the modified vessels are occasionally called Spårö class.

## Description

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The ships are equipped for acoustic, magnetic and mechanical mine clearance. There is also an underwater vehicle type Uven and a towed array sonar on board. It is also possible to manoeuvre the remote-controlled mine clearance system "SAM" from the ships. The Styrsö-class ships have very good manoeuvring properties and are used for hunting bottom mines, traditional mine sweeping and operating in coastal waters. They carry underwater remotely-operated vehicles (ROVs) of the type Uven and are prepared for the next generation of ROVs called ROV S.

The class is built exclusively with civilian technology, so-called (COTS), everything from diesel engines to the computers on board have been bought from the civilian market. This method simplifies the procedure of upgrading the system, it is also very cost-effective eliminating the need to develop new expensive military systems. The ships have a completely integrated command and navigation system with computer communication and projection of charts in a 3D environment.

## History

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The class consists of four ships that were built from 1996 to 1997. They are an important addition to the Swedish mine clearance ability. In 2004 HSwMS Spårö and HSwMS Sturkö were modernised, pulling out some of their capability for traditional mine clearance in favour of extended human dive support, the modified vessels are occasionally called Spårö class.

## Units

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Bow number  | Ship name  | Laid down  | Launched  | Commissioned  | Note

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M11  | Styrsö |  |  | 1996  | In material reserve
M12  | Spårö |  | 30 August 1996  | 21 February 1997  | Converted to diving support vessel
17 (M13)  | Skaftö |  | 1997  | 1997  | Converted to command and supply vessel
M14  | Sturkö |  |  | 1998  | Converted to diving support vessel

## References

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* Minröjningsfartyget Styrsö - Försvarsmakten (in Swedish)
* Örlogsboken 2003 (in Swedish)

Active ships of the Swedish Navy

Corvettes|

| Stockholm class|

* Stockholm
* Malmö

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Göteborg class|

* Gävle
* Sundsvall

Visby class|

* Visby
* Helsingborg
* Härnösand
* Nyköping
* Karlstad

Submarines|

| Gotland class|

* Gotland
* Uppland
* Halland

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Södermanland class|

* Södermanland
* Östergötland

Mine countermeasures vessels|

| Styrsö class|

* Styrsö
* Spårö
* Skaftö
* Sturkö

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Koster class|

* Koster
* Kullen
* Vinga
* Ven
* Ulvön

Training ships|

| Altair class|

* Altair
* Antares
* Arcturus
* Argo
* Astrea

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* Gladan
* Falken

Auxiliaries|

* Artemis
* Belos
* Carlskrona
* Orion
* Trossö

* v
* t
* e

Saab Kockums

Ships|

* Bedok-class mine countermeasures vessel
* HSwMS Orion
* Landsort-class mine countermeasures vessel
* MT Frans Suell
* MV Sovetskaya Latviya
* Styrsö-class mine countermeasures vessel
* Unmanned surface vehicle Piraya
* Visby-class corvette
* HSwMS Artemis

Submarines|

* Archer-class submarine
* Blekinge-class submarine
* Collins-class submarine
* Gotland-class submarine
* Näcken-class submarine
* HSwMS Näcken
* HSwMS Neptun
* Södermanland-class submarine
* Västergötland-class submarine

Related|

* Kockums Crane

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* KulturNav

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