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TA14

Torpedo Boat 1927 - 1944  


TA14 February 1944

Captured Italian Cacciatorpediniere Turbine, Turbine class


Contruction Data

Laid down:     Nicolo Odero Sestri-Ponente, 1925
Launched:     21.07.1927
Commissioned:     27.08.1927 (28.10.1943 in German services)
Fate:     sunk 15.09.1944
Costs:     

Technical Data

Size:     1356 t
Length:     94,1 m
Beam:     9,20 m
Draft:     3,64m
Armament:     4 x 12,5 cm; 3 x 3,7 cm; 18 x 2 cm; 3 x 53,3 cm torpedoes
Performance:     40000 shp, 36 kn

History

The Italian destroyer Turbine was captured in Piraeus, Greece in September 1943. After equipped with additional 3,7 and 2 cm antiaircraft guns, the then called TA14 was attached to the 9th TFlottila operating in the Aegean Sea. Until 1944 it was mainly used for escort duty and was hit by air launched rockets on 01.02.1944 at Samos, escorting the merchant ship Leda. After repairs the ship joined the TFlottila again in May 1944, but was damaged by explosives laid by sabotage units on 19.06.1944 and was sunk during its repairs in an air attack on 16.09.1944.


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