Dimensions
- Displacement
- 1261 t
- Length
- 84,9 m
- Beam
- 8,60 m
- Draft
- 3,35 m
1261 tDisplacement
84,9 mLength
35,0 knSpeed
01.05.1927 (30.10.1943 in German services)Service status
Wartime history
Capture and fate
The old Italian destroyer Frencesco Crispi was captured by the Kriegsmarine after the Italian surrender in September 1943. Equipped with additional anti aircraft guns and renamed to TA15 it was commissioned on 30.10.1943 and attached to the 9th Torpedoboot flotilla operating in the Aegean Sea. Despite severe problems with one engine in 1944, reducing the speed to 15 kn, the ship was still used due to the lack of available ships. On 08.03.1944, it was hit by three rockets fired by aircraft and sunk near Heraklion.
Ship data
Technical profile
Dimensions, weapons and machinery.
Armament
- Main battery
- 4 x 12 cm
- Additional guns
- 1 x 4 cm
- Additional guns
- 2 x 3,7 cm
- Additional guns
- 10 x 2 cm
- Torpedo tubes
- 2 x 53,3 cm torpedoes
Performance
- Machinery and speed
- 35540 shp, 35,0 kn
Service record
Construction record
- Laid down
- C. u. T.T. Pattison Napoli-S. Giovanni, 1923
- Launched
- 12.09.1925
- Commissioned
- 01.05.1927 (30.10.1943 in German services)
- Fate
- sunk 08.03.1944