TA17
| Captured Italian Cacciatorpediniere Solferino, Palestro class |
Contruction Data
| Laid down: |
Fratelli Orlando Livorno, 1917 |
| Launched: |
28.04.1920 |
| Commissioned: |
31.10.1921 (25.07.1944 in German services) |
| Fate: |
sunk 19.10.1944 |
| Costs: |
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Technical Data
| Size: |
1046 t |
| Length: |
81,2 m |
| Beam: |
8,02 m |
| Draft: |
2,88 m |
| Armament: |
3 x 10,2 cm; 1 x 3,7 cm; 6 x 2 cm;
4 x 45 cm torpedoes; Mines |
| Performance: |
22000 shp, 32,0 kn |
History
Those old Italian destroyers wase captured on 09.09. 1943 in Greece. After some slight modifications - one 10,2 gun removed and the addition of more antiaircraft guns, it was attached to the 9th torpedo boat division operating in the Aegean sea.
TA18
(former Solferino
) was commisioned on 25.07.1944 and used for escort duty in the Aegean sea. It was sunk in a battle with the British destroyers Termagant
and Tuscan
on 19.10.1944.
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