Profile drawing of TA3
1443tDisplacement
93,2 mLength
34knSpeed
Not commissionedService status

Wartime history

Capture and fate

Six incomplete ships of the 1010t-class, the Le Fier, L'Agile, L'Alsacien, L'Entreprenant, Le Farouche and Le Corse were captured by the German Army in June 1940. Renamed to TA1 - TA6 ("Torpedoboot Ausland"), it was planned to complete all six ships, but material shortages and sabotage by French workers made this impossible. In April 1943, the focus was changed to continue only two ships, TA1 and TA4 but even they were not completed. TA3 was captured in June 1940. Construction only continued very slowly until April 1942 when it was stopped. In July of the folowing year parts of the ship were ordered to be used to continue the other ships of this class. The hulk was destroyed during an air attack in March 1944, the remains were scrapped in 1952.

Ship data

Technical profile

Dimensions, weapons and machinery.

Dimensions

Displacement
1443t
Length
93,2 m
Beam
9,28 m
Draft
3,91 m

Armament

Main battery
3 x 10,5 cm
Additional guns
2 x 3,7 cm
Additional guns
9 x 2 cm
Torpedo tubes
6 x 53,3 cm torpedoes

Performance

Machinery and speed
30800 shp, 34kn

Service record

Construction record

Laid down
Ateliers et Chantiers de la Bretagne Nants, 1939
Fate
scrapped 1952