HSwMS Romulus (27)
HSwMS 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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| Class and type: | Spica-class torpedo boat |
| Name: | Spica |
| Builder: | BS Napoletani |
| Launched: | 11.3.1934 |
| Out of service: | Sold to Sweden in 1940 |
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| Class and type: | Romulus-class destroyer |
| Name: | Romulus |
| Acquired: | 1940 |
| Decommissioned: | 1958 |
| Status: | Stricken |
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| 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 |
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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
- Conway p372
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
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