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TA16

Torpedo Boat 1924 - 1944  


TA16

Captured Italian Cacciatorpediniere Castelfidardo, Curtatone class


Contruction Data

Laid down:     Fratelli Orlando Livorno, 1920
Launched:     04.06.1922
Commissioned:     07.03.1924 (14.10.1943 in German services)
Fate:     sunk 02.06.1944
Costs:     

Technical Data

Size:     1073 t
Length:     84,9 m
Beam:     8,02m
Draft:     2,76 m
Armament:     4 x 10,2 cm; 1 x 4 cm; 9 x 2 cm;
  3 x 45 cm torpedoes; Mines
Performance:     22000 shp, 32,0 kn

History

This Italian torpedoboat was captured on 09.09.1943. After equipped with additional antiaircraft guns (2 cm and 4 cm) the ship
was part of the 9th Torpedoboot flotilla operating in the Aegean Sea.
TA16 (former Castelfidardo ) was commisioned on 14.10.1943. While covering an important supply convoy on 31.05.1944, the ship was heavily damaged by British Beaufighter, Baltimore and Marauder bombers, destroying almost the entire superstructure and causing heavy flooding. Towed into the harbor of Heraklion, TA16 was sunk when a nearby anchoring merchant ship, the Gertrud , exploded during an air attack.


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