Dimensions
- Displacement
- 1011 t
- Length
- 87,6 m
- Beam
- 8,38 m
- Draft
- 2,89 m
1011 tDisplacement
87,6 mLength
31,0 knSpeed
05.07.1916 (21.10.1943 in German services)Service status
Wartime history
Capture and fate
The Kawakaze was originally build as a destroyer for Japan, but bought as Intrepido by Italy in 1916. Reclassified as torpedo boat and renamed to Audace, it was captured on 12. 09.1943 in Venice. After being equipped with additional antiaircraft guns, it was used as TA20 for escort duty in the Adriatic Sea. On 01.11.1944 it was sunk in a battle with the British destroyers Avon Vale and Wheatland.
Ship data
Technical profile
Dimensions, weapons and machinery.
Armament
- Main battery
- 2 x 10,2 cm
- Additional guns
- 2 x 3,7 cm
- Additional guns
- 6 x 2 cm
- Mines
- 20 Mines
Performance
- Machinery and speed
- 22000 shp, 31,0 kn
Scale model archive
1/1250 Model
A miniature representation preserved in the original ship archive.
Service record
Construction record
- Laid down
- Yarow & Co. Glasgow-Scotstoun, 1914
- Launched
- 26.10.1915
- Commissioned
- 05.07.1916 (21.10.1943 in German services)
- Fate
- sunk 01.11.1944