HSwMS Remus
Remus | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Italy | |
| Name | Astore |
| Builder | BS Napoletani |
| Launched | 1934 |
| Completed | 30 May 1935 |
| Fate | Sold to Sweden in 1940 |
| Sweden | |
| Name | Remus |
| Acquired | 1940 |
| Decommissioned | 1958 |
| Identification | 28 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1961 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Romulus-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 630 long tons (640 t) (standard) |
| Length | 81.4 m (267 ft 1 in) |
| Beam | 8.2 m (26 ft 11 in) |
| Draft | 2.3 m (7 ft 7 in) |
| Installed power |
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| Propulsion | 2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines |
| Speed | 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph) |
| Range | 1,700 nmi (3,100 km; 2,000 mi) at 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
| Complement | 99 |
| Sensors & processing systems | Sonar and hydrophones |
| Armament |
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HSwMS Remus (28) was a Romulus-class destroyer that was purchased from the Royal Italian Navy in 1940 for the Royal Swedish Navy. She served during World War II and the first decades of the Cold War. The ship had been built as Astore during the 1930s.