HSwMS Wale
{{Short description|Swedish Hugin class destroyer}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image= |Ship caption= }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country= Sweden |Ship flag= {{shipboxflag|Sweden|naval}} |Ship name= Wale |Ship namesake= Váli |Ship ordered= |Ship builder=Kockums |Ship laid down= |Ship launched= 21 September 1907 |Ship completed= 11 April 1908 |Ship commissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= 18 October 1940 |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship homeport= |Ship motto= |Ship nickname= |Ship honours= |Ship fate= Sunk as target, 26 September 1946 |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class= |Ship displacement={{convert|350|LT|t|0|lk=on}} |Ship length= {{convert|66.1|m|ftin|abbr=on}} |Ship beam= {{convert|6.3|m|ftin|abbr=on}} |Ship draught= {{convert|1.7|m|ftin|abbr=on}} |Ship propulsion=2 shafts; 2 triple-expansion engines |Ship speed= {{convert|30|kn|lk=in}} |Ship range= |Ship complement=69 |Ship power= *4 × Yarrow boilers
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HSwMS Wale (3) was a destroyer of the Swedish Navy. Wale was built by Kockums Shipyard and launched on September 21, 1907 and delivered to the fleet on 11 April 1908. The vessel was based on the two former British-built destroyers {{HSwMS|Mode|1|6}} and {{HSwMS|Magne|2|6}}. Wale was the first destroyer to be built in Sweden and was influential in the development of the destroyers in that nation. After Wale, in the years 1907–1911, another five destroyers followed with essentially the same design. These were two ships of the {{sclass|Hugin|destroyer|4}} and three ships of the {{sclass|Ragnar|destroyer|4}}. Wale was decommissioned on 18 November 1940. She was sunk as a target outside Fårösund by the Swedish Coastal Artillery and the {{HSwMS|Sundsvall|J12|6}} on 26 September 1946.{{cite web |url=http://www.tjelvar.se/marinen/m41.htm |publisher=Gotlands försvarshistoria och Gotlands trupper |website=www.tjelvar.se |title=HMS Wales sista strid utanför Gotland |trans-title=HSwMS Wale's last battle outside Gotland |first=Kjell |last=Olsson |access-date=31 October 2017 |language=Swedish |archive-date=7 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107021944/http://www.tjelvar.se/marinen/m41.htm |url-status=dead }}
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Category:Destroyers of the Swedish Navy
Category:Shipwrecks in the Baltic Sea
Category:Ships sunk as targets
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