HSwMS Meteor was a of the Swedish Navy. Launched in 1898 as part of a modernization effort, she operated off the Swedish coast. The ship was redesignated in 1921 and renamed Vedettbåten V28. After uneventful service in World War II, she was decommissioned in 1947.
Development and design In the late 20th century, the Swedish Navy focused on defending the country's coast and modernized after the Imperial Russian Navy's Baltic Fleet was simarily modernized. Launched in 1896 and built by Schichau-Werke in Germany, was the first torpedo boat of the Swedish Navy faster than . Her design was used as the basis for the next generation of Swedish torpedo boats, with the addition of a second boiler and funnel. The resulting eleven featured a length of , beam of , draft of , and fully loaded displacement of . They were propelled by two Yarrow water tube boilers that produced steam for a three cylinder triple expansion steam engine that output and turned one propeller to output a top speed of . The ships had a range of at a cruising speed of . Armament consisted of two M/93 torpedo tubes and two M/95 guns. The ships had a compliment of 18.
Service history The Swedish Navy designated the Komet-class as 1st rate torpedo boats as they displaced more than . As the largest type of torpedo boat, they were intended to operate off the Swedish coast and in the Swedish Archipelagos alongside 1st rate gunboats. Meteor was built by the Karlskrona Navy Yard, launched on 28 September 1898, and delivered to the Swedish Navy in December 1899. In 1901, she was rearmed with two M/98B guns. In 1921, the entire class was redesignated as (type of patrol boat), and renamed. Meteor was renamed Vedettbåten V28 and had one torpedo tube removed. For most of World War II, she was assigned to operate out of Malmö, had the torpedo tube reinstalled, and the bow gun was replaced by a machine gun. She was decommissioned on 13 July 1947.
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