HSwMS Puke (19)

History
Italy
Name:	Bettino Ricasoli
Namesake:	Bettino Ricasoli
Builder:	Societa Pattison, Naples
Launched:	29 January 1926
Commissioned:	11 December 1926
Fate:	Sold to Sweden, 1940
Sweden
Name:	Puke
Acquired:	1940
Commissioned:	27 March 1940
Decommissioned:	13 June 1947
Fate:	Scrapped, 1949
General characteristics
Class and type:	Psilander-class destroyer
Displacement:	970 long tons (990 t) standard 1,480 long tons (1,500 t) full load
Length:	89.4 m (293 ft 4 in)
Beam:	8.6 m (28 ft 3 in)
Draught:	2.7 m (8 ft 10 in)
Propulsion:	2 shaft Parsons type geared turbines 3 boilers 36,000 hp (26,800 kW)
Speed:	35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph)
Range:	1,800 nmi (3,300 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement:	153
Armament:	4 × 120 mm (4.7 in) guns (2×2) 2 × 40 mm pom-pom anti-aircraft guns 2 × 31.2 mm machine guns 4 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes (2×2) 32 mines

HSwMS Puke (19) was a Psilander-class destroyer of the Royal Swedish Navy from 1940 to 1947. The ship was purchased from Italy by Sweden in 1940, along with her sister ship HSwMS Psilander. Before that, she served in the Regia Marina as Bettino Ricasoli, one of four members of the Italian Sella class. Puke was scrapped in 1947.

References

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Sella-class destroyers
Regia Marina	Quintino Sella Bettino Ricasoli Giovanni Nicotera Francesco Crispi
Kriegsmarine	TA 15 (ex-Francesco Crispi)
Swedish Navy Psilander class	Psilander (ex-Giovanni Nicotera) Puke (ex-Bettino Ricasoli)
Preceded by: Leone class Followed by: Sauro class
List of destroyers of the Regia Marina