Dimensions
- Displacement
- 1073 t
- Length
- 84,9 m
- Beam
- 8,02m
- Draft
- 2,76 m
1073 tDisplacement
84,9 mLength
32,0 knSpeed
24.05.1924 (19.09.1943 in German services)Service status
Wartime history
Capture and fate
This Italian torpedoboat was captured on 09.09.1943. After being equipped with additional antiaircraft guns (2 cm and 4 cm) the ship was part of the 9th Torpedoboot flotilla operating in the Aegean Sea. TA19 (former Calatafimi) was commissioned at the end of 1943. It was badly damaged by Beaufighter bombers on 19.06.1944 and also towed to Heraklion. After repairs, the torpedo boat was sunk by the Greece submarine Pipinos on 09.08.1944.
Ship data
Technical profile
Dimensions, weapons and machinery.
Armament
- Main battery
- 2 x 10,2 cm
- Additional guns
- 1 x 3,7 cm
- Additional guns
- 5 x 2 cm
- Torpedo tubes
- 2 x 45 cm torpedoes
Performance
- Machinery and speed
- 22000 shp, 32,0 kn
Service record
Construction record
- Laid down
- Fratelli Orlando Livorno, 1920
- Launched
- 17.03.1923
- Commissioned
- 24.05.1924 (19.09.1943 in German services)
- Fate
- sunk 09.08.1944