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SPALATO destroyer

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Spalato (ex-Split)     Jadranska Brodogradilista, Split, Yugoslavia 7/1939 18.7.1943 7/1958 // --- scuttled incomplete 20.9.1943

 

Displacement standard, t

2040

Displacement full, t

2500

Length, m

114.8 pp 121.0 oa

Breadth, m

12.0

Draught, m

3.48 mean 3.75 full load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 sets Tosi geared steam turbines, 3 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

55000

Max speed, kts

38

Fuel, t

oil 560

Armament

5 x 1 - 135/45 OTO/Ansaldo 1938, 10 x 1 - 37/54 Breda 1939, 4 x 2 - 20/65 Breda 1935, 1 x 3 - 533 TT, 40 mines, 2 DCT, 2 DCR

Sensors EC.3/ter radar, S-Gerät sonar

Complement

214

Project history: Split was laid down in Split for Yugoslavian Navy, seized by Italians on the stocks 18.4.1941, renamed Spalato and launched 18.7.1943. Incomplete ship was scuttled in the Yard dock 20.9.1943 by Yugoslavian partisans, but later captured by Germans and salvaged by them in 1944. Hull was scuttled again in October 1944 by Germans but salvaged again after war, introduced in 1950 into the dry dock in Rijeka and commissioned finally in 1959, 20 years after she was laid down.

Split 1969

 

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