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.

History
Italy
Class and type: Spica-class torpedo boat
Name: Spica
Builder: BS Napoletani
Launched: 11.3.1934
Out of service: Sold to Sweden in 1940
Sweden
Class and type: Romulus-class destroyer
Name: Romulus
Acquired: 1940
Decommissioned: 1958
Status: 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:

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
  1. 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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