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]
hswms, romulus, destroyer, royal, swedish, navy, name, ship, class, service, during, world, later, first, decades, cold, historyitalynamespicabuilderbs, napoletanilaunched11, 1934fatesold, sweden, 1940swedennameromulusacquired1940decommissioned1958fatestricken. 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 HistoryItalyNameSpicaBuilderBS NapoletaniLaunched11 3 1934FateSold to Sweden in 1940SwedenNameRomulusAcquired1940Decommissioned1958FateStrickenGeneral characteristics 1 TypeDestroyerDisplacement870 long tons 880 t standardLength81 4 m 267 ft 1 in Beam7 9 m 25 ft 11 in Draught3 2 m 10 ft 6 in Installed power19 000 hp 14 200 kW Propulsion2 boilers 2 Tosi steam turbines 2 shaftsSpeed34 knots 39 mph 63 km h Complement110Sensors and processing systemsSonar and hydrophonesArmament3 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 minesRomulus 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 Edit a b c Conway p372References EditBirchfield B Borgenstam Carl Caruana Joseph amp 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 7External links EditSpica Marina Militare websitePortals Italy Sweden Engineering Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title HSwMS Romulus 27 amp oldid 1096440261, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
