HSwMS Romulus (27)

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
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) 2 × depth charge throwers Up to 20 mines

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.

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.

References

• Birchfield, B.; Borgenstam, Carl; Caruana, Joseph & Frampton, Viktor (1988). "Question 3/87". Warship International. XXV (2): 205–210. ISSN 0043-0374.
• Westerlund, Karl-Eric (1980). "Sweden". In Chesneau, Roger (ed.). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. New York: Mayflower Books. pp. 368–377. ISBN 0-8317-0303-2.
• Whitley, M. J. (2000). Destroyers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. London: Cassell & Co. ISBN 1-85409-521-8.

External links

• Spica Marina Militare website