HSwMS Spica at sea.
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History | |
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Sweden | |
Name | HSwMS Spica |
Namesake | Spica |
Builder | Götaverken AB |
Launched | 24 June 1966 |
Decommissioned | 1989 |
Identification | T121 |
Status | Museum ship since 1989 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Spica-class fast attack craft (FAC) |
Displacement | 210 tons |
Length | 42.5 m (139 ft) |
Beam | 7.1 m (23 ft) |
Draught | 2.6 m (8 ft 6 in) |
Propulsion | Three Bristol Proteus 4,250 HP gas-turbines driving 3 hydraulically controllable pitch screws |
Speed | 40 knots+ |
Complement | 30 |
Armament | 1× Bofors 57 mm gun, 6× 533 mm (21.0 in) wire-guided torpedoes, 2× 7.62×51mm NATO machine guns, Flare and chaff rockets, naval mines and/or depth charges |
HSwMS Spica (T121) is a former Swedish Navy Spica-class, torpedo-armed, fast attack craft (FAC), now a museum ship at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.