In the decades following World War II, the Swedish Navy was organised around three light cruiser groups (, and ). In the early 1960s, a decision, known as Navy Plan 60 (), was made to scrap the cruisers and move towards a larger fleet of smaller vessels. The last cruiser, "Göta Lejon", was sold in 1970 to Chile, where she was renamed "Almirante Latorre". The fleet at the time comprised some 24 destroyers and frigates for surface warfare (mainly in the Baltic Sea) and anti-submarine warfare.