HSwMS Romulus

History
Italy
Name	Spica
Builder	BS Napoletani
Launched	11 March 1934
Fate	Sold to Sweden, March 1940
Sweden
Name	Romulus
Acquired	1940
Decommissioned	1958
Fate	Sold for scrap, 1961
General characteristics
Class & type	Romulus-class destroyer
Displacement	630 long tons (640 t) (standard)
Length	81.4 m (267 ft 1 in)
Beam	8.2 m (26 ft 11 in)
Draft	2.3 m (7 ft 7 in)
Installed power	2 Yarrow boilers; 19,000 shp (14,000 kW);
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines
Speed	34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Range	1,700 nmi (3,100 km; 2,000 mi) at 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Complement	99
Sensors &; processing systems	Sonar and hydrophones
Armament	3 × single 100 mm (3.9 in) 100/47 DP guns; 3 × single 20 mm (0.8 in) AA guns; 2 × twin 457 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes (2 × twin mounts); 2 × depth charge throwers; 28 × mines;

HSwMS Romulus (27) was the lead ship of her class of two destroyers that was purchased from the Royal Italian Navy in 1940 for the Royal Swedish Navy. She served during World War II and the first decades of the Cold War. The ship had been built as Spica during the 1930s.