Acquired 1997 Draft 4.5m Length 72 m Displacement 2.14 million kg | Commissioned 1998 Launched 1984 Weight 2,140 tons Beam 13 m | |
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Class and type Akademik Shuleykin class Propulsion 2x diesel engines, 3000 hk Builders File:Flag of Finland.svg, Oy Laivateollisuus Ab | ||
HSwMS Trossö (A264) is an auxiliary ship in the Swedish Navy. She was built in Finland for the Soviet Navy as an Akademik Shuleykin-class ice-strengthened patrol craft tender, launched in 1984 as Arnold Veymer and renamed Livonia in 1991. Her sister ships were Akademik Shuleykin, Akademik Gamburtsev, Professor Molchanov, Professor Multanovskiy, Geolog Dmitriy Nalivkin, Professor Polshkov, Professor Khromov and Akademik Shokalskiy.
History
Arnold Veymer, named after Arnold Veimer, was built in Finland in 1984 for the Soviet Academy of Sciences as an oceanographic ship. She was transferred to Estonia to carry out marine research in the Baltic Sea and in the Atlantic.
The Swedish Navy bought the ship from Estonia in September 1996 and she entered service in 1998 as HSwMS Trossö (A264). She was refitted in 2003 at Falkvarv, Falkenberg and now serves the 3rd Naval Warfare Flotilla as a support ship. She also serves as a command ship during larger exercises.
In 2008, together with HSwMS Stockholm and HSwMS Malmö, she was included in the Swedish naval force of the Operation Atalanta, deployed off the Somalian coast to fight piracy. On 21 October 2009 the ship returned to Karlskrona. The home transportation was done with the semi-submersible heavy-lift ship, MV Eide Transporter.