HSwMS Remus

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Remus
History
Italy
NameAstore
BuilderBS Napoletani
Launched1934
Completed30 May 1935
FateSold to Sweden in 1940
Sweden
NameRemus
Acquired1940
Decommissioned1958
Identification28
FateScrapped 1961
General characteristics
Displacement
  • 795 long tons (808 t) standard
  • 1,020 long tons (1,040 t) full load
Length83.5 m (273 ft 11 in)
Beam8.1 m (26 ft 7 in)
Draught2.55 m (8 ft 4 in)
Propulsion
  • 2 steam turbines, 2 shafts
  • 19,000 hp (14,200 kW)
Speed34 knots (39 mph; 63 km/h)
Complement116
Armament

HSwMS Remus (28) was a

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.

Notes

References

External links

  • Astore Marina Militare website