HSwMS Remus (28)

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]

HSwMS Remus
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
Status:	Most likely scrapped
General characteristics
Class and 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 (4 in) / 47 caliber 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

Notes

1. Conway p372

References

• Birchfield, B.; Borgenstam, Carl; Caruana, Joseph & Frampton, Viktor (1988). "Question 3/87". Warship International. XXV (2): 205–210. ISSN 0043-0374.
• Robert Gardner, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946 (1980) Conway Publishing : ISBN 0-85177-146-7
• Remus at Miramar ship index (subscription view)