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Split 1969 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Сплит [Split] (ex-Spalato, ex-Split)	Р11 [R11]	30	Jadranska Brodogradilista, Split // 3 Mai Brodogradilista, Rijeka	7/1939	18.7.1943 and 3.1950	4.7.1958	stricken 1980

Technical data

Data variant	as designed	as completed
Displacement standard, t	2400	2400
Displacement full, t	3000	3000
Length, m	114.8 pp 120.0 oa	114.7 pp 120.0 oa
Breadth, m	11.3	12.0
Draught, m	3.48 mean	3.70 max
No of shafts	2	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Yarrow boilers	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	55000	50000
Max speed, kts	38	31.5
Fuel, t	oil	oil 590
Endurance, nm(kts)	---
Armament	5 x 1 - 140/56 Škoda, 5 x 2 - 40/56 Bofors, 4 x 2 - 15/80, 2 x 3 - 533 TT, 30 mines, 2 DCR	4 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 1 x 4 - 40/60 Mk 2, 2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 4 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 1 x 5 - 533 TT, 2 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 15 ASWRL, 6 DCT, 2 DCR, 40 mines
Electronic equipment	---	SC, SG-1, Mk 12.22 radars, QGA sonar
Complement		240

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Project history

Large destroyer, designed by A C de la Loire as development of Dubrovnik. Under the original design it was planned to arm ship by 140mm/56 Škoda guns and 40mm/56 twin Bofors MGs, machinery was ordered to Yarrow. Split was captured by Italian troops on slipway 18.4.1941. Italians renamed her Spalato and made efforts on her completion under modified design with armament consisted of 5 single 135mm/45 guns, 5 single 37mm/54, 4 twin 20mm/65 MGs and 1 triple 533mm TT; machinery was reordered for Tosi. In 1943 ship was launched, however works were never completed (availability was been approximately 50%). After surrendering of Italy hull was 20.9.1943 scuttled by Yugoslavian guerrillas in dock at Split. Then she was captured by German troops, salvaged, however works were never restarted and hull was again scuttled at Split at evacuation of Germans from Yugoslavia in 1944 (on other data, hull was sunk by Allied aircraft). After war she was salvaged and since 1950 completed at Rijeka under changed design with US-made armaments and electronics.

Modernizations

1980: only 1 boiler was serviceable (25000hp, 24kts).

Naval service

No significant events.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.