Hugin was a built for the Royal Swedish Navy during the 1910s. Completed in 1911, she conducted neutrality patrols during both World Wars.
Design and description The Hugin-class ships were improved versions of the earlier and were the first Swedish warships built with steam turbines. The ships displaced at normal load and at full load. The destroyers measured long at the waterline and overall with a beam of Westerlund 1985, p. 360 and a draught of at normal load. The Hugins were powered by a pair of AEG-Curtiss direct-drive steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft using steam provided by four coal-fired Yarrow boilers. The turbines were designed to produce a total of for a maximum speed of . Hugin handily exceeded her designed speed during her sea trials, reaching . They carried enough coal to give them a range of at a speed of . The ships had a complement of 73 officers and ratings.
The Hugin class was armed with four m/05 guns in single mounts. One gun was situated on the forward superstructure and another on the stern; the other two were on the broadside amidships.Westerlund 1992, p. 153 The ships were also armed with two 457 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes on single mounts located on the centreline between the stern gun and the rear funnel.
Modifications The ships exchanged their single torpedo-tube mounts for twin-tube mounts in 1916. Both ships replaced their stern gun with a pair of twin-gun mounts for Bofors anti-aircraft guns in 1939. They also had a pair of depth charge racks added at the stern. Hugin was reboilered in 1941–1942 and had her guns replaced.
Construction and career Hugin was launched on 10 December 1910 by Gotaverken in their shipyard in Gothenburg and commissioned on 20 June 1911. The ship conducted neutrality patrols during both World Wars.Hofsten, Waernberg & Ohlsson, p. 153
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