HSwMS ''Visborg'' (A265) previously (M03), was a command/auxiliary ship in the Swedish Navy and was a part of the 4th Naval Warfare Flotilla. She was decommissioned 2010. HSwMS ''Trossö'' replaced her role as a support ship at the 4th Naval Warfare Flotilla.

History

She served as a

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from 1976 until 1999 when she was refitted to her current role as a command ship. Her sister ship HSwMS ''Älvsborg'' was sold to the

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1997 and renamed ''Almirante José Toribio Merino Castro''. The last conscripts served during the year 2010 and also honoured the royal wedding with their presence the same year. She was then taken out of active duty and her planned replacement is which returned from the EUNAVFOR operation Atalanta 2010. In 2013 ''Visborg'' was delivered to Oresund Dry Docks in

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, Sweden, for breaking.

References

4th Naval Warfare Flotilla - ''HMS Visborg''
* Örlogsboken 2003 Auxiliary ships of the Swedish Navy 1974 ships Ships built in Karlskrona {{Sweden-stub