HSwMS Wachtmeister (10)

Wachtmeister at sea
History
Sweden
Name	Wachtmeister
Namesake	Wachtmeister noble family
Builder	Lindholmens, Gothenburg
Launched	19 December 1917
Completed	19 October 1918
Out of service	13 June 1947
Identification	Pennant number: 10, later 26
Fate	Sold for scrap, 1950
General characteristics
Class and type	Wrangel-class destroyer
Displacement	415 t (408 long tons) standard 498 t (490 long tons) full load
Length	69.6 m (228 ft 4 in)
Beam	6.9 m (22 ft 8 in)
Draught	2.8 m (9 ft 2 in)
Installed power	4 Yarrow boilers 11,000 shp (8,200 kW)
Propulsion	2 screws; 2 geared steam turbines
Speed	34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Complement	81
Armament	4 × single 75 mm (3 in) guns 1 × single 25 mm (1 in) gun 2 × twin, 2 × single 457 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes

HSwMS Wachtmeisterwas the second and last of the Wrangel-class destroyers built for the Royal Swedish Navy during World War I. Completed in 1918, the ship was rammed by another Swedish destroyer four years later. At the beginning of World War II in 1939 she was assigned to the Gothenburg Squadron. Wachtmeister was decommissioned in 1947 and was subsequently sold for scrap in 1950.