HSwMS Remus (28)
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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 |
| Career (Sweden) |  |
| Class and type: | Romulus-class destroyer |
| Name: | Remus |
| Acquired: | 1940 |
| Decommissioned: | 1958 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 795 long tons (808 t) standard 1,020 long tons (1,040 t) full load |
| 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: | 2 steam turbines, 2 shafts 19,000 hp (14,200 kW) |
| Speed: | 34 knots (39 mph; 63 km/h) |
| Complement: | 116 |
| Armament: | • 3 × 100 mm (3.9 in) guns • 10 × 20 mm (0.79 in) anti-aircraft guns • 2 × 13.2 mm (0.52 in) anti-aircraft machine guns • 4 × 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes • Up to 20 mines |
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.
References
http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz/ship/list?IDNo=6109581&search_op=OR
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