Spica-class torpedo boat (Sweden)
HSwMS Spica at sea | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Spica class |
| Builders | Götaverken and Karskrona Navy Yard |
| Operators | Swedish Navy |
| Built | 1964–1966 |
| In service | 1966–1989 |
| Completed | 6 |
| Retired | 6 |
| Preserved | HSwMS Spica |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Torpedo boat |
| Displacement | 220 tons standard, 235 tons full load |
| Length | 42.5 m (139 ft) |
| Beam | 7.1 m (23 ft) |
| Draught | 1.6 m (5 ft 3 in) |
| Propulsion | 3 shaft, Bristol Proteus gas turbines 12,750 hp (9,510 kW), 3 controllable pitch propellers |
| Speed | 40 knots (74 km/h; 46 mph) |
| Complement | 30 |
| Sensors & processing systems | Radar: Scanter 009, HSA M22 |
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The Spica class was a class of six fast torpedo boats built for the Swedish Navy in the 1960s and decommissioned in the late 1980s. One ship, HSwMS Spica, is preserved as a museum ship in Stockholm, Sweden.