be rescued. Vidar was towed into Bergkvara while Wachtmeister could reach Karlskrona by herself. Both destroyers were repaired and taken into service the following year. In 1923, Crown Prince Gustav Adolf would be engaged to Louise Mountbatten with the engagement taking place in England. On 28 June, Wachtmeister went from Karlskrona together with her sister ship Wrangel and all three ships in the Sverige class. On July 2 they went to Sheerness, England where the couple visited the ships. A couple of days later, the journey proceeded to Rosyth, Scotland, where they visited the English Atlantic fleet before going back to Sweden. In the mid-1920s, the ship's boilers, which were initially coal-fired, were converted to oil-fired. World War II In 1939, the ship was redeployed, when the forward two torpedo tubes were removed and a 25 mm anti-aircraft automatic gun was added. Furthermore, the two machine guns were replaced with an 8 mm anti-aircraft machine gun m/36 that was mounted on the aft bridge and two depth charge positions with 16 depth charges m/24. During the beginning of World War II, Wachtmeister together with her sister ship was part of the Gothenburg Squadron. In the winter of 1940-1941, the ship would receive new boilers, but by late autumn 1943, she was put into material reserve in Stockholm. Fate After Wachtmeister was placed in reserve, she never would be reactivated and was released from service on June 13, 1947. In 1950 she was sold for scrap to a company in Karlstad. References Notes Print Wrangel-class destroyers Ships built in Gothenburg 1917 ships