Finnish Navy

Finnish Navy
Merivoimat (Finnish) Marinen (Swedish)
Emblem of the Finnish Navy
Founded	1918; 106 years ago (1918)
Country	Finland
Type	Navy
Role	Maritime warfare
Size	6,700 personnel 31,500 personnel mobilised
Part of	Finnish Defence Forces
Battle honours	Russo-Swedish War Finnish Civil War Winter War Continuation War
Website	merivoimat.fi/en/
Commanders
Commander	Rear Admiral Tuomas Tiilikainen[1]
Insignia
Ensign
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The Finnish Navy (Finnish: Merivoimat, Swedish: Marinen) is one of the branches of the Finnish Defence Forces. The navy employs 2,300 people and about 4,300 conscripts are trained each year. Finnish Navy vessels are given the ship prefix "FNS", short for "Finnish Navy ship", but this is not used in Finnish-language contexts. The Finnish Navy also includes coastal forces and coastal artillery.