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TA32

Torpedo Boat 1932 - 1945  


TA32

Captured Yugoslav Razarac Dubrovnik.


Contruction Data

Laid down:     Yarrwo & Co Glasgow-Scotstoun, 1930
Launched:     11.10.1931
Commissioned:     1932 (18.08.1944 in German services)
Fate:     destroyed 24.04.1945
Costs:     

Technical Data

Size:     2400 t
Length:     113,2 m
Beam:     10,7 m
Draft:     4,10 m
Armament:     4x 10,5 cm; 4 x 3,7 cm; 28 x 2 cm; 6x RAgg 8,6 cm;
  3 x 53,3 cm torpedo tubes ; 4 DC lanucher
Performance:     42900 shp, 37,0 kn

History

The former Yugoslav destroyer Dubrovnik was first captured by Italy in April 1941 and put into Italian service as Premude . After the Italian capitulation, the ship was taken over by the Kriegsmarine in Genoa on 09.09.1943. It was first thought to rebuild it as a night fighter command ship, replacing the Italian 13,5 cm guns with three German 10,5 cm and installing a Freya Funkmeßgerät (Radar). On 18.06.1944 it was decided to use the ship as a torpedo boat again and it was commissioned as TA32 on 18.08.1944. As part of the 10th torpedo boat flotilla, it was used in an mine laying operation on 18.03.1945 where it engaged the British destroyers Meteor and Lookout , which sunk the other German torpedo boats in this operation, TA24 and TA29 . on 24.04.1945, TA32 was blown up by its own crew in Genoa harbor.


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