Profile drawing of TA18
1046 tDisplacement
81,2 mLength
32,0 knSpeed
31.10.1921 (25.07.1944 in German services)Service status

Wartime history

Capture and fate

Those old Italian destroyers wase captured on 09.09. 1943 in Greece. After some slight modifications - one 10,2 gun removed and the addition of more antiaircraft guns, it was attached to the 9th torpedo boat division operating in the Aegean sea. TA18 (former Solferino) was commissioned on 25.07.1944 and used for escort duty in the Aegean sea. It was sunk in a battle with the British destroyers Termagant and Tuscan on 19.10.1944.

Ship data

Technical profile

Dimensions, weapons and machinery.

Dimensions

Displacement
1046 t
Length
81,2 m
Beam
8,02 m
Draft
2,88 m

Armament

Main battery
3 x 10,2 cm
Additional guns
1 x 3,7 cm
Additional guns
6 x 2 cm
Torpedo tubes
4 x 45 cm torpedoes
Mines
Mines

Performance

Machinery and speed
22000 shp, 32,0 kn

Service record

Construction record

Laid down
Fratelli Orlando Livorno, 1917
Launched
28.04.1920
Commissioned
31.10.1921 (25.07.1944 in German services)
Fate
sunk 19.10.1944