Main characteristics of the T 121 Spica

Building shipyard: Götaverken AB
Date of launch: 1966-06-24
Discarded: 1989
Hull: Steel
Superstructure: Aluminium
Length overall: 42,5 m
Maximum width: 7,1 m
Draft: 2,6 m
Displacement: 210 ton
Machinery: 3 Bristol-Siddeley gas-turbine engines,
each of 4,250 HP
Propellers: 3 KaMeWa propellers with hydraulically controllable pitch
Speed: Maximum speed above 40 knots
Crew: Wartime crew 30 men, officers and conscripts in proportion 50/50
Armament: 1 x 57 mm Bofors Dual Purpose Gun
  6 x 53 cm wire-guided torpedoes
  2 x 7,62 mm machine guns m/58 (from Fabrique Nationale d'Armes de Guerre and. Carl Gustafs Stads Gevärsfaktori)
  Flare rockets and chaff rockets
  Mines
  Depth charges
Radar: Navigation radar PN 610, reconnaissance radar PS 57, and fire-control radar PE 57

 

HMS Spica in Stockholm archipelago, spring 1973. Photographer : Sten Hecker.
HMS Spica in Stockholm archipelago, spring 1973. Photographer : Sten Hecker.