HSwMS Halland (J18) was the lead ship of the Halland-class destroyer. She and HSwMS Småland were the only ones built of their class. Two more ships were ordered but they were never completed.
Halland carried out submarine hunting on a couple of occasions, including at Hasslö and Utö in 1980. She was used for two years as a long-haul vessel as a replacement for HSwMS Älvsnabben (M01) before HSwMS Carlskrona (M04) started. However, the trips had to be made short as her operating costs were high. It was decommissioned on June 30, 1987, and sold the following year for scrapping in Spain. A model of Halland in scale 1:50 has been exhibited at the Maritime History Museum and Marine Museum in Karlskrona.
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