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. She was stricken in 1958 and scrapped in 1961.
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Name | Astore |
Builder | BS Napoletani |
Launched | 1934 |
Completed | 30 May 1935 |
Fate | Sold to Sweden in 1940 |
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Name | Remus |
Acquired | 1940 |
Decommissioned | 1958 |
Identification | 28 |
Fate | Scrapped 1961 |
General characteristics | |
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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Notes
editReferences
edit- Birchfield, B.; Borgenstam, Carl; Caruana, Joseph & Frampton, Viktor (1988). "Question 3/87". Warship International. XXV (2): 205–210. ISSN 0043-0374.
- Borgenstam, Curt; Insulander, Per & Kaudern, Gösta (1989). Jagare: med Svenska flottans jagare under 80 år [Destroyers: Swedish Navy Destroyers under 80 years] (in Swedish). Västra Frölunda: Marinlitteratur. ISBN 91-970700-4-1. SELIBR 7792227.
- Westerlund, Karl-Eric (1980). "Sweden". In Chesneau, Roger (ed.). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. New York: Mayflower Books. pp. 368–377. ISBN 0-8317-0303-2.
- Whitley, M. J. (2000). Destroyers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. London: Cassell & Co. ISBN 1-85409-521-8.
- Remus at Miramar ship index (subscription view)
External links
edit- Astore Marina Militare website