fleet.wikisort.org - ShipHSwMS Romulus (27) was a destroyer of the Royal Swedish Navy, the name ship of her class. She was in service during World War II, and later, in the first decades of the Cold War.
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History |
Italy |
Name | Spica |
Builder | BS Napoletani |
Launched | 11.3.1934 |
Fate | Sold to Sweden in 1940 |
Sweden |
Name | Romulus |
Acquired | 1940 |
Decommissioned | 1958 |
Fate | Stricken |
General characteristics [1] |
Type | Destroyer |
Displacement | 870 long tons (880 t) standard |
Length | 81.4 m (267 ft 1 in) |
Beam | 7.9 m (25 ft 11 in) |
Draught | 3.2 m (10 ft 6 in) |
Installed power | 19,000 hp (14,200 kW) |
Propulsion | 2 boilers, 2 Tosi steam turbines, 2 shafts |
Speed | 34 knots (39 mph; 63 km/h) |
Complement | 110 |
Sensors and processing systems | Sonar and hydrophones |
Armament |
- 3 × 100 mm (3.9 in) 100/47 dual-purpose guns
- 6 × 20 mm (0.79 in) Breda 20/65 mod. 35 AA guns
- 4 × 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes (2 × twin mounts)[1]
- 2 × depth charge throwers
- Up to 20 mines
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Romulus had been built as Spica, a torpedo boat for Italy's Regia Marina, and the lead ship of her class. She was built in the mid-1930s and sold to Sweden in 1940. The ship served in the Royal Swedish Navy until she was stricken in 1958.[1]
Notes
References
- Birchfield, B.; Borgenstam, Carl; Caruana, Joseph & Frampton, Viktor (1988). "Question 3/87". Warship International. XXV (2): 205–210. ISSN 0043-0374.
- Robert Gardner, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946 (1980) Conway Publishing : ISBN 0-85177-146-7
External links
- Spica Marina Militare website
Spica-class torpedo boats |
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Regia Marina |
- Airone
- Alcione
- Aldebaran
- Altair
- Andromeda
- Antares
- Aretusa
- Ariel
- Astore
- Calipso
- Calliope
- Canopo
- Cassiopea
- Castore
- Centauro
- Cigno
- Circe
- Climene
- Clio
- Libra
- Lince
- Lira
- Lupo
- Pallade
- Partenope
- Perseo
- Pleiadi
- Polluce
- Sagittario
- Sirio
- Spica
- Vega
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Royal Swedish Navy Romulus classD | |
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- Classed as destroyers by Royal Swedish Navy
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Authority control: Art research institutes  | |
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