HSwMS Claes Uggla

History
HSwMS Claes Uggla as she ran aground in 1917

Name:	Claes Uggla
Launched:	9 December 1899
Commissioned:	28 November 1900
Fate:	Sank 22 June 1917
General characteristics
Type:	Torpedo cruiser
Displacement:	800 long tons (810 t)
Length:	69 m (226 ft 5 in)
Beam:	8.2 m (26 ft 11 in)
Draught:	3.2 m (10 ft 6 in)
Armament:	2 × 120 mm (4.7 in) guns, 4 × 57 mm (2.2 in) guns, 1 × 38 cm (15 in) torpedo tube

HSwMS Claes Uggla was a torpedo cruiser of the Swedish Navy. She was named after the 17th-century admiral Claes Uggla. The ship's name is spelled as Clas Uggla in some English-language sources.

Claes Uggla ran aground and sank on 22 June 1917.

External links

Photo of wreck

Örnen-class cruiser

Claes Horn Claes Uggla Jacob Bagge Örnen Psilander

List of cruisers of the Royal Swedish Navy

Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in June 1917

Shipwrecks	4 Jun: HMT Southland 7 Jun: SM UC-29 12 Jun: SM UC-66 13 Jun: USS McCulloch 15 Jun: Kristianiafjord 19 Jun: Ariane 20 Jun: USS Gypsy 22 Jun: HSwMS Claes Uggla 27 Jun: Doxa, Kléber, Ultonia 30 Jun: HMS Cheerful, Leytenant Zatsarenni

Other incidents	10 Jun: HMS Grafton 13 Jun: USS Amphitrite, Manchuria 15 Jun: USS Olympia 17 Jun: HMS Tartar

1916 1917 1918 May 1917 July 1917

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