The multicruiser HSwMS Gotland: She was a seaplane cruiser of the Swedish Navy. The design of the ship started out in December 1926 as a seaplane carrier with room for twelve aircraft. When presented with the design, Sweden's Naval Construction Board decided that it wanted the ship to have cruiser and minelaying functions as well as operating as a seaplane carrier. The design was then reduced in size requiring one of the forward turrets be removed. Its guns were then placed in casemates either side of the superstructure, a feature otherwise found only in the American Omaha class cruisers. During World War II Gotland sighted the German battleship Bismarck when it broke out of the Baltic Sea. The sighting was reported to Swedish Navy headquarters. The report was passed to the British naval attache in Stockholm, who forwarded it to the Admiralty, triggering the Battle of the Denmark Strait and the allied chase of the great battleship.
HSwMS Gotland was converted in 1944 to an anti-aircraft cruiser due to a lack of modern seaplanes.
After World War II she served as a training ship. Starting 1953 and finishing in 1954 she was modified to allow her to serve as a fighter direction ship in the event of war as well as a training ship in peacetime. She was scrapped in 1963.
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