HSwMS Klas Uggla (1931)

	Picture of the Swedish destroyer HMS Klas Uggla (4).
History
Sweden
Name	Klas Uggla
Builder	Karlskronavarvet, Karlskrona
Launched	18 June 1931
Commissioned	27 September 1932
Stricken	30 June 1942
Identification	Pennant number: 4
Fate	Sunk by an explosion, 17 September 1941, and subsequently scrapped
General characteristics (as built)
Class & type	Klas-class destroyer
Displacement	1,020 long tons (1,036 t)
Length	91 m (298 ft 7 in) (pp)
Beam	8.9 m (29 ft 2 in)
Draught	3.7 m (12 ft 2 in) (deep load)
Installed power	3 Penhoët boilers; 26,000 shp (19,388 kW);
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines
Speed	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range	1,600 nmi (3,000 km; 1,800 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement	130
Armament	3 × single 120 mm (4.7 in) guns; 2 × single 40 mm (1.6 in) AA guns; 2 × triple 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes; 2 × depth charge throwers; 20 naval mines;

Klas Uggla was one of two Klas-class destroyers built for the Royal Swedish Navy during the 1930s. Completed in 1932, she conducted neutrality patrols during World War II before she was sunk by an explosion in 1941. Her wreck was subsequently scrapped.