HSwMS Puke (19)
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| History |
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| Name: |
Bettino Ricasoli |
| Namesake: |
Bettino Ricasoli |
| Builder: |
Societa Pattison, Naples |
| Launched: |
29 January 1926 |
| Commissioned: |
11 December 1926 |
| Fate: |
Sold to Sweden, 1940 |
 Sweden
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| Name: |
Puke |
| Acquired: |
1940 |
| Commissioned: |
27 March 1940 |
| Decommissioned: |
13 June 1947 |
| Fate: |
Scrapped, 1949 |
| General characteristics |
| Class & type: |
Psilander-class destroyer |
| Displacement: |
- 970 long tons (990 t) standard
- 1,480 long tons (1,500 t) full load
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| Length: |
89.4 m (293 ft 4 in) |
| Beam: |
8.6 m (28 ft 3 in) |
| Draught: |
2.7 m (8 ft 10 in) |
| Propulsion: |
- 2 shaft Parsons type geared turbines
- 3 boilers
- 36,000 hp (26,800 kW)
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| Speed: |
35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Range: |
1,800 nmi (3,300 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Complement: |
153 |
| Armament: |
- 4 × 120 mm (4.7 in) guns (2×2)
- 2 × 40 mm pom-pom anti-aircraft guns
- 2 × 31.2 mm machine guns
- 4 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes (2×2)
- 32 mines
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HSwMS Puke (19) was a Psilander-class destroyer of the Royal Swedish Navy from 1940 to 1947. The ship was purchased from Italy by Sweden in 1940. Before that, she served in the Regia Marina as Bettino Ricasoli, one of four members of the Italian Sella class. Puke was scrapped in 1947.
References
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- TA 15 (ex-Francesco Crispi)
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- Psilander (ex-Giovanni Nicotera)
- Puke (ex-Bettino Ricasoli)
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- List of destroyers of the Regia Marina
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