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TA19

Torpedo Boat 1924 - 1944  Curtatone  Class


TA16

Captured Italian Cacciatorpediniere Calatafimi, Curtatone class


Contruction Data

Laid down:     Fratelli Orlando Livorno, 1920
Launched:     17.03.1923
Commissioned:     24.05.1924 (19.09.1943 in German services)
Fate:     sunk 09.08.1944
Costs:     

Technical Data

Size:     1073 t
Length:     84,9 m
Beam:     8,02m
Draft:     2,76 m
Armament:     2 x 10,2 cm; 1 x 3,7 cm; 5 x 2 cm;
  2 x 45 cm torpedoes
Performance:     22000 shp, 32,0 kn

History

This Italian torpedoboat was captured on 09.09.1943. After equipped with additional antiaircraft guns (2 cm and 4 cm) the ship
was part of the 9th Torpedoboot flotilla operating in the Aegean Sea.
TA19 (former Calatafimi ) was commissioned at the end of 1943. It was badly damaged by Beaufighter bombers on 19.06.1944 and also towed to Heraklion. After repairs, the torpedo boat was sunk by the Greece submarine Pipinos on 09.08.1944.


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