HSwMS Spica (T121)

	HSwMS Spica at sea.
History
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.

Construction and career

The vessel was one of three constructed in the 1960s by Götaverken AB on Hisingen, the other two being HSwMS Sirius (T122) and HSwMS Capella (T123). Three similar vessels were built by Karlskronavarvet.

The vessel was taken out of service in 1989 and made into a museum ship in her former home port of Karlskrona until 2002. It was subsequently moved to the Vasa Museum. It is a listed historic ship of Sweden.

Gallery

HSwMS Spica at sea in 1966.
HSwMS Spica at sea in 1966.
HSwMS Spica moored outside of the Vasa Museum in July 2005. The tall funnel belongs to SS Sankt Erik, moored on the other side of the jetty.
HSwMS Spica moored outside of the Vasa Museum in July 2005. The tall funnel belongs to SS Sankt Erik, moored on the other side of the jetty.
HSwMS Spica underway on 8 September 2018.