Profile drawing of TA31
1570 tDisplacement
96,15 mLength
38,0 knSpeed
25.01.1932 (17.06.1944 in German services)Service status

Wartime history

Capture and fate

German troops captures the Italian destroyer Dardo on 09.09.1943 in a shipyard in Genoa where it was undergoing repairs (the ship is said to be capsized in 1941 or 1942 because of a too high top weight). Although being not in a fully operational condition, the ship was commissioned by the Kriegsmarine because of the lack of available ships. After a short operational service in the 10th torpedo boat flotilla it was heavily damaged by bomb hits on 25.10.1943 in La Spezia and decommissioned. The wreck was scuttled on April 1945.

Ship data

Technical profile

Dimensions, weapons and machinery.

Dimensions

Displacement
1570 t
Length
96,15 m
Beam
9,75 m
Draft
3,21 m

Armament

Main battery
4x 12 cm
Additional guns
4 x 3,7 cm
Additional guns
11 x 2 cm
Additional guns
3 x 45 cm torp
Mines
30 mines

Performance

Machinery and speed
44000 shp, 38,0 kn

Service record

Construction record

Laid down
Nicolo Odero Sestri-Ponente, 1929
Launched
06.09.1930
Commissioned
25.01.1932 (17.06.1944 in German services)
Fate
destroyed 24.04.1945