Profile drawing of TA44
2975 tDisplacement
110,37 mLength
28 knSpeed
01.05.1931 (14.10.1944 in German services)Service status

Wartime history

Capture and fate

The Italian destroyer Antonio Pigafetta was captured by German troops in Fiume on 10.09.1943. Recommissioned after repairs on 14.10.1944 as TA44 it was part of the 9th Torpedoboot Flotilla and sunk after a bomb hit on 17.02.1945 in the port of Trieste.

Ship data

Technical profile

Dimensions, weapons and machinery.

Dimensions

Displacement
2975 t
Length
110,37 m
Beam
11,2 m
Draft
3,87 m

Armament

Main battery
6 x 12,0 cm
Additional guns
5 x 3,7 cm
Additional guns
14 x 2 cm
Torpedo tubes
6 x 53,3 cm torpedo tubes
Mines
52 mines
Depth charges
2 DC launcher

Performance

Machinery and speed
55000 shp, 28 kn

Service record

Construction record

Laid down
Cantieri Navali del Quarnaro Fiume, 1928
Launched
10.11.1929
Commissioned
01.05.1931 (14.10.1944 in German services)
Fate
sunk 17.02.1945