HSwMS Remus (28)
HSwMS Remus | |
History | |
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Class and type: | Spica-class torpedo boat |
Name: | Astore |
Builder: | BS Napoletani |
Launched: | 1934 |
Completed: | 30 May 1935 |
Out of service: | Sold to Sweden in 1940 |
Class and type: | Romulus-class destroyer |
Name: | Remus |
Acquired: | 1940 |
Decommissioned: | 1958 |
Status: | Most likely scrapped |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | none |
Displacement: |
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Length: | 83.5 m (273 ft 11 in) |
Beam: | 8.1 m (26 ft 7 in) |
Draught: | 2.55 m (8 ft 4 in) |
Propulsion: |
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Speed: | 34 knots (39 mph; 63 km/h) |
Complement: | 116 |
Armament: |
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HSwMS Remus (28) was a Romulus-class destroyer of the Royal Swedish Navy during World War II. She had been built as Astore, a Spica-class torpedo boat for Italy's Regia Marina, in the mid-1930s and sold to Sweden in 1940. The ship served in the Royal Swedish Navy until she was stricken in 1958.[1]
Notes
- ↑ Conway p372
References
- Robert Gardner, Conway's All the Worlds Fighting Ships 1922–1946 (1980) Conway Publishing : ISBN 0-85177-146-7
- Remus at Miramar ship index (subscription view)
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