HSwMS Puke (19)

History
Italy
Name	Bettino Ricasoli
Namesake	Bettino Ricasoli
Builder	Societa Pattison, Naples
Laid down	11 January 1923
Launched	29 January 1926
Commissioned	11 December 1926
Fate	Sold to Sweden, 1940
Sweden
Name	Puke
Namesake	Johan af Puke
Acquired	1940
Commissioned	27 March 1940
Decommissioned	13 June 1947
Fate	Scrapped, 1949
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Psilander-class destroyer
Displacement	970 t (950 long tons) (standard); 1,480 t (1,460 long tons) (full load);
Length	84.9 m (278 ft 7 in)
Beam	8.6 m (28 ft 3 in)
Draught	2.7 m (8 ft 10 in)
Installed power	3 Thornycroft boilers; 36,000 shp (27,000 kW);
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines
Speed	33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Range	3,600 nmi (6,700 km; 4,100 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement	152–153
Armament	1 × twin, 1 × single 120 mm (4.7 in) guns; 2 × single 40 mm (1.6 in) AA guns; 2 × single 13.2 mm (0.52 in) machine guns; 2 × twin 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes; 32 mines;

HSwMS Puke (19) was a Psilander-class destroyer of the 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 (Royal Italian Navy) as Bettino Ricasoli, one of four members of the Italian Sella class. Puke was scrapped in 1949.

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