HSwMS Wale

History
Sweden
Name:	Wale
Builder:	Kockums
Launched:	21 September 1907
Completed:	11 April 1908
Out of service:	18 October 1940
Fate:	sunk as target
General characteristics
Displacement:	350 long tons (356 t) tons
Length:	66.1 m (217 ft)
Beam:	6.3 m (21 ft)
Draught:	1.7 m (5.6 ft)
Propulsion:	4-cyl vertical triple expansion, 4xYarrow boiler 7,200 shp (5,369 kW)
Speed:	30 knots (35 mph; 56 km/h)
Complement:	69
Armament:	2 × 75 mm (3.0 in)/53cal. gun 4 × 57 mm (2.2 in)/55cal. gun 2 × 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes M/02-04

HMS Wale (3) was a destroyer Swedish Navy. Wale was built by Kockums Shipyard and was launched on September 21, 1907 and delivered to the fleet on April 11, 1908. The vessel was based on the two former British-built destroyers HSwMS Mode and HSwMS Magne. HMS Wale was the first destroyer to be built in Sweden and was influential in the development of the destroyers in that nation. After Wale, in the years 1907-1911, another five destroyers followed with essentially the same design. These were two ships of the Hugin class and three ships of the Ragnar class. HMS Wale was decommissioned on November 18, 1940, and later sunk as a target outside Fårösund by Coastal Artillery and the HSwMS Gävle (J9).