HSwMS Remus (28)

History

Italy
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
Sweden
Class and type:	Romulus-class destroyer
Name:	Remus
Acquired:	1940
Decommissioned:	1958
General characteristics
Class & type:	none
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

Spica-class torpedo boats

Regia Marina	Airone Alcione Aldebaran Altair Andromeda Antares Aretusa Ariel Astore Calipso Calliope Canopo Cassiopea Castore Centauro Cigno Circe Climene Clio Libra Lince Lira Lupo Pallade Partenope Perseo Pleiadi Polluce Sagittario Sirio Spica Vega

Royal Swedish Navy Romulus class^†	Remus Romulus

^† – Classed as destroyers by Royal Swedish Navy List of destroyers of the Regia Marina List of destroyers of the Royal Swedish Navy

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