Yugoslav destroyer Split

An early profile drawing of Split
History
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Name	Split
Namesake	City of Split
Builder	Yarrow Shipbuilders, Split
Laid down	July 1939
Fate	Captured while under construction, 15 April 1941
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Name	Split
Launched	March 1950
Acquired	27 October 1944
Commissioned	4 July 1958
Decommissioned	1980
Stricken	2 February 1984
Fate	Scrapped, 1986
General characteristics (as designed)[1]
Type	Destroyer
Displacement	2,400 long tons (2,439 t) (Standard)
Length	120 m (393 ft 8 in) (o/a)
Beam	11.3 m (37 ft 1 in)
Draft	3.48 m (11 ft 5 in)
Installed power	3 × Yarrow boilers 55,000 shp (41,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines
Speed	38 knots (70 km/h; 44 mph)
Armament	5 × single 14 cm (5.5 in) guns 5 × twin 40 mm (1.6 in) AA guns 4 × twin 15 mm (0.6 in) AA guns 2 x triple 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes
General characteristics (as completed)[2]
Beam	12 m (39 ft 4 in)
Draft	3.7 m (12 ft 2 in)
Installed power	2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers 50,000 shp (37,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines
Speed	31.5 knots (58.3 km/h; 36.2 mph)
Complement	240
Sensors and processing systems	SC search radar SG-1 surface-search radar Mk 12 fire-control radar Mk 22 height-finding radar QGA sonar
Armament	4 × single 127 mm (5 in)/38 naval guns 1 × quad, 2 × twin, 2 × single 40 mm guns 1 × quintuple 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes 2 × Hedgehog anti-submarine spigot mortars 6 × Depth charge throwers; 2 × depth charge racks 40 × mines

The Yugoslav destroyer Split was a large destroyer designed for the Royal Yugoslav Navy in the late 1930s. Construction began in 1939, but she was captured incomplete by the Italians during the invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941. They continued to build the ship, barring a brief hiatus, but she was not completed before she was scuttled after the Italian surrender in September 1943. The Germans occupied Split and refloated the destroyer later that year, but made no efforts to continue work. The ship was scuttled again before the city was taken over by the Yugoslav Partisans in late 1944. Split was refloated once more, but the new Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was able to do little with her before the Tito–Stalin Split in 1948 halted most work. Aid and equipment from the United States and the United Kingdom finally allowed her to be completed 20 years after construction began. She was commissioned in July 1958 and served as the navy's flagship for most of her career. Split became a training ship in the late 1970s after a boiler explosion. She was decommissioned in 1980, and scrapped six years later.