Kondor and T23 transfer from Kiel to La Pallice.
102,5mOverall length
1754tMaximum displacement
32,3 knMaximum speed
206Complement
Design and service
The story of Flottentorpedoboot T23
T23 Flottentorpedoboot T23 was part of the 4th T-Flottila after being commissioned. Sent to France in November 1942 and mainly used for escorting convoys, blockade breakers and U-Boats in the Gulf of Biscay. Returned to Germany in January 1944 for maintenance and then attached to the 6th Torpedoboot flotilla, later to the 5th T-Flottila supporting retreating German army units.
Handed over to Britain on 6 January 1946.
Given to France and renamed to Alsace (later L'Alsacien), decommissioned on 9 June 1954 as scrapped in February 1955.
Operational history
Service timeline
Kondor, T23 and the mine hunter M85 accidently attack two German patrol boats near the channel islands, causing several wounded and dead.
At a glance
Technical profile
Dimensions, armament, protection and performance.
Dimensions
- Size (Max)
- 1754t
- Length (Total)
- 102,5m
- Length (Waterline)
- 97,0 m
- Beam
- 10,0 m
- Draft
- 3,22 m
- Crew
- 206
Armament
- 10,5 cm L/45 C/32
- 4
- 3,7 cm L/83 C/30
- 4
- 2 cm MG L/65 C/39
- 2-9
- 53,3 cm Torpedo tubes
- 6
- Mines
- 50
Machinery
- Shafts
- 2
- Turbines
- 2
- Type
- Wagner Type Geared Turbines (Schichau build)
Performance
- Total Performance
- 32560 shp
- Speed
- 32,3 kn
- Range
- 2400 sm at 19 kn
Construction record
Flottentorpedoboot T23
- Laid down
- Schichau Elbing, 1940
- Launched
- 14.06.1941
- Commissioned
- 14.06.1942
- Fate
- scrapped February 1955
- Cost
- 5,7 Mio Reichsmark