HSwMS Magne (1905)
HSwMS "Magne" was a torpedo boat destroyer of the Royal Swedish Navy. "Magne" was built by the British shipbuilder Thornycroft, launching in 1905. She was employed on neutrality patrol and escort duties during the First World War and was sold for scrap in 1943. Design. In 1904, the Swedish Parliament authorised the Swedish Navy Board to purchase a second torpedo boat destroyer, as a follow-on to , which had been built by the British shipyard Yarrow in 1902. The new destroyer, to be called "Magne", and based on Thornycroft's built for Japan, was ordered from Yarrow 's British rival Thornycroft in July 1904, for a price of £50,000. "Magne" was long at the waterline, with a beam of and a draught of . Displacement was full load. Like "Mode", "Magne" had a turtleback forecastle, although "Magne"s turtleback was longer, and four funnels. Four Thornycroft-Schutz coal-fed water-tube boilers supplied steam at to 2 triple expansion steam engines, rated at , that drove two shafts. Contract speed was at full load. Armament consisted of six 57-mm QF guns, with two 450 mm (18-inch) torpedo tubes mounted aft. Crew was 67 officers and other ranks . Construction and service. "Magne" was built by Thornycroft at their Chiswick, London yard, as yard number 378, and was launched on 2 August 1905. She reached a speed of during acceptance sea trials, before delivery to Sweden to have her armament fitted. She proved to have better seakeeping than "Mode", being much drier, although like "Mode" made no more than in Swedish service. "Magne" formed the basis of the design for Sweden's next four destroyers, and the three ), which were built between 1907 and 1909 in Swedish shipyards. After arming, "Magne" was deployed with "Mode" to the West coast  of Sweden during the crisis that preceded the dissolution of the Union between Sweden and Norway. During the First World War, "Magne" was used to patrol neutral Sweden's waters and for escort duties, and in 1916 forced the out of Swedish waters near Gotland. "Magne" was laid up at the end of 1918, and was stricken in 1936. She was then used as a target before being sold for scrap in 1943.