Karl XIV Johan Class Battlecruiser

The Karl XIV Johan Class battlecruisers are a pair of battlecruiser ordered and built for the Royal Swedish Navy.

HSwMS Karl XIV Johan
Karl XIV Johan was laid down in Götaverken in 1930, launched in 1931 and commissioned in 1933. She began her shakedown cruiser near Karlskrona. When she entered service in 1936, the world is not in conflict. She was assigned to the Baltic Sea with Gotland and two other destroyers.

She sank Frunze and Krasnyy Kavkaz, in 1941 and 1943, respectively.

Karl XIV Johan are kept in service until 1972 as Guided Missile Battlecruiser along with Oscar II.

HSwMS Oscar II
Oscar II was laid down in Götaverken in 1932, being launched in 1934, and entered service in 1938.

She spent her career mostly in the Allied-Axis Pacific Squadron along USS Iowa, New Jersey, KMS Bismarck, and the Danish battleship HDMS Bielke