Swedish king now has his own torpedo boat

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: May 17, 1989 | Copyright information

Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf has armed and restored a torpedo boat for his private flotilla.

The king bought the decommissioned 32-year-old vessel in 1987 for $15,000. He was the only bidder when the boat was offered for scrap, stripped of its guns.

Since then he has added surface-to-air missile launchers, rocket launchers and torpedo tubes to the T-46, once the war...

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