Talk:Swedish Navy

message: Why in the world are the Swedish ships on wikipedia prefixed with HMS? As far as I know that prefix is reserved for Royal Navy vessels. Shouldn't the correct term be HSMS?
Manxruler 20:55, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: How would HMS be "reserved" for Royal Navy ships? Swedish Navy ships do indeed have the prefix HMS, for Hans Majestäts Skepp (His Majesty's Ship) or Hennes Majestäts Skepp (Her Majesty's Ship). I've never ever seen anyone use HSMS as a prefix, so no, that wouldn't be the correct term. – Elisson • T • C • 21:45, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In the Swedish Navy all Navy ships have the prefix HMS. When Swedish Navy ships are cooperating with other navies they use the prefix HSwMS (His Swedish Majesty's Ship) in order to not be mistaken for Royal Navy ships.Risottos 01:37, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems to be true, didn't know that. Either way, as long as it is made clear what navy the ship belongs to, there is, IMHO, no need to use HSwMS. – Elisson • T • C • 01:55, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

text: Certainly not. HMS is used except when operating with foreign vessels - as stated above. See for example: http://www.fmv.se/WmTemplates/page.aspx?id=2598.
Still people seems to have problems with this. HMS is used in English as well - only the American and British navies use the "HSwMS" prefix.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.237.233.202 (talk) 15:15, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  I have made a post on the SHIPS wikiproject about both this because there needs to be a clear policy on how to handle all Swedish naval vessels on  the English wikipedia, at the moment theres atleast one article which lists things as HSwMS and just using HMS does lead to alot of confusion with the Royal Navy which can be easily avoided. Please see my full comment on this here .  Thanks BritishWatcher (talk) 17:33, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, but there is absolutely no reason to invent a designation which is not official. Tomas e (talk) 18:25, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Confusing... BritishWatcher links to a post he made at wikiproject ships.... only that post was made by Tomas e? Weakopedia (talk) 22:12, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, the heading seems to be in the archive now, so the link needs updating. As I remember it, we strongly disagreed, so it's probably not my posting he wanted to refer to. :-) Perhaps this webpage, the Swedish Armed Forces' own English-language information on the Swedish Navy, shows the organisation's own use of names in English. The Navy as such is called "The Swedish Navy" without any "Royal" prefix, but the ships are called "HMS ..." - HMS Gävle and HMS Sundsvall are specifically mentioned. Tomas e (talk) 10:25, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes the section is now in the archive Here. There was no support for using a different term other than HMS for Swedish ships as only some countries like the UK and USA use that other term. It would be helpful if the Swedish navy chose a different prefix but aslong as HMS is used throughout the English language wikipedia (at the time i came across atleast one using the other term) theres not too big a problem. I guess in a way i should be glad, Sweden has some nice ships and some may mistakenly think they are British ;) BritishWatcher (talk) 10:48, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Got it - I was a year out. Cheers. Weakopedia (talk) 11:06, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

text: A Template:HSwMS template was recently created and should be retrofitted to this article, eliminating the confusing use of HMS. Varlaam (talk) 05:37, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

text: No, the Manxman and Britishwatcher are both wrong, and since their arguments are so weak (people may be confused - I mean really? Shall we rename Georgia as well?) it is tempting to see this as nationalist bias - especially considering the first comment which was assuming that HMS should somehow be "reserved" for UK vessels.  "HSwMS" is indeed used by NATO or when the Swedish navy operates alongside NATO forces -the "source" used to claim HSwMS is the correct prefix is a NATO link. However, this is neither the NATO wiki nor the UK wiki, it's the English language wiki. The Swedish navy and other Swedish agencies  - and authors on the subject of the Swedish navy - use "HMS" in English, which is the correct prefix. HSwMS has actually started to pop-up sometimes, but clearly due to journalists or others having read the English wikipedia...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.19.127.2 (talk) 12:35, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
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message: I created the article Structure of the Swedish Armed Forces in 1989, which contains a complete overview of the Swedish Armed Forces in 1989. The information comes from Arméhandboks of the army, from the Swedish wiki, and from government defense bills. As far as I can tell army and air force are complete and 100% correct. As for the navy: all in 1989 commissioned ships are listed, but some flotillas and divisions are missing. The coastal artillery is nearly complete, although there are some of the Spärrbataljon and Rörliga Spärrbataljon missing. Also missing for all three services are some of the schools. The Home Guard is missing as I could not find info on the ~85 battalions the Home Guard would field. Also missing are the designations/numbers/locations of the independent artillery, engineer, signal, air defense, etc. battalions that would be activated in war (except for the 3x Bandkanon 1 battalions of Milo ÖN). Even though these parts are missing, this is the most comprehensive/detailed/full listing of Swedish forces in 1989 ever.
However: if you have some more information, especially about the above mentioned stuff that is missing, please feel free to add this information to the article, or leave a message with the info on my talk page. Thank you, noclador (talk) 17:39, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
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message: Should be mentioned smuggling is an issue as Sweden had a 50% tariff/import tax creating need for Naval interdiction. Sweden had purchased submarines for this purpose as well. TaylorLeem (talk) 01:39, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
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