September 9, 1566 (aged 48–49) Vadstena, Östergötland County
Buried
Uppsala Cathedral
Allegiance
Sweden
Service/branch
Swedish Navy
Rank
Admiral
Battles/wars
Russo-Swedish War (1554–1557)
Expeditions of Jakob Bagge (1555)
Northern Seven Years' War
Action of 14 August 1564
Battle of Rügen (1565)
Action of 4 June 1565
Action of 7 July 1565
Action of 26 July 1566
Coat of arms of the Swedish Royal Navy destroyer HSwMS Klas Horn
Baron Klas Kristersson Horn (1517 – September 9, 1566) was a Finnish-born Swedish nobleman and naval admiral who fought for Sweden in the Northern Seven Years' War of 1563–1570.[1][2]
^Bertil Broomé. "Klas Kristersson (Horn)". Swedish biographical dictionary. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
^"Horn af Åminne". Adelsvapen-Wiki. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
dominion of Sweden. KlasHorn was raised to nobility (Horn af Åminne) and made a baron in June 1561. After Jakob Bagge was captured, Klas was promoted to...
KlasHorn was originally the Kazarski-class torpedo gunboat Posadnik of the Imperial Russian Navy. One of three built for the Russian Baltic Fleet, Posednik...
1782. Members of the Horn af Åminne branch include: KlasHorn af Åminne (1517–1566), admiral of the Swedish navy. Clas Fredrik Horn af Åminne (1763–1823)...
victory during the expedition was the conquest of Pärnu, which fell to KlasHorn on June 4. After the conquest, Åke Bengtsson Färla was made commandant...
Admiral Horn may refer to: Gregory C. Horn (born 1953), U.S. Navy rear admiral Henrik Horn (1618–1693), Swedish admiral KlasHorn (1517–1566), Finnish-born...
delivering the coastal battleships Gustav V, the destroyers Ehrensköld and KlasHorn, the icebreaker Ymer, some 25 submarines, and several motor torpedo boats...
Finnish Navy of the late 1910s and early 1920s consisted of a few gunboats (KlasHorn, Matti Kurki, Turunmaa, and Karjala), six S-class torpedo boats, eight...
Lübecker ships, under Trolle, and a Swedish fleet of around 49 ships, under KlasHorn. Afterward, the Danes retired to Køge Bay, south of Copenhagen, where...
1565 and was a decisive victory for a Swedish fleet of 49 ships, under KlasHorn, over a combined Danish and Lübecker fleet of 36 ships, under Otte Rud...
blows up his ship after a Danish attack. Action of 12 August Swedes under KlasHorn defeat Danes under Herluf Trolle, southeast of Öland. 1565 Action of 4...
doubling as a training exercise for conscript sailors. In 1925, the gunboats KlasHorn and Hämeenmaa, as well as the torpedo boats S1 and S2, embarked on one...
of the noble Swedish family, Horn af Kanckas. He was the son of Klas Henriksson Horn (c. 1445 – c. 1520) and his second wife Kristina Jakobsdotter (c...
September, the squadron was strengthened with the Coastal Fleet's destroyers KlasHorn and Göteborg as well as two submarines. Kjellander 2007, p. 35 "Göteborgsavdelningen...
1936. 2 Magne 1905 No specific class Decommissioned in 1936 3 KlasHorn 1932/1943 Klas Decommissioned in 1941, again in 1958 3 Wale 1908 No specific class...
powerful explosion occurred in Hårsfjärden where the destroyer Klas Uggla, KlasHorn and Göteborg were destroyed. Air disaster Ängelholm 31 1964, November...
May 1944 sunk 26 December 1944 KlasHorn Swedish Navy Klas Destroyer 1,020 16 September 1932 stricken 15 August 1958 Klas Uggla Destroyer 1,020 27 September...
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