Dimensions
- Displacement
- 846 t
- Length
- 80,70 m
- Beam
- 7,96 m
- Draft
- 3,50 m
846 tDisplacement
80,70 mLength
35,5 knSpeed
October 1938Service status
Wartime history
Capture and fate
Like many other torpedoboats, those six ships were first given to Italy and taken over by the Kriegsmarine in April 1943, transferred from La Spezia to Toulon. It soon became clear, that the ships were in a very bad condition, ammunition, personnel shortages and their lack of offensive capabilities made it impossible to use them as torpedo boats. Therefore all ships were used as escort vessels and operated in the 3. and 4. escort division. TA12 (former F.R.44 (ital.), L'Baliste (fr)) was never commissioned in the Kriegsmarine and sunk by American B17 bombers during an attack on Toulon on 24.11.1943.
Ship data
Technical profile
Dimensions, weapons and machinery.
Armament
- Main battery
- 2 x 10,5 cm
- Additional guns
- 2 x 3,7 cm
- Additional guns
- 9 x 2 cm
- Torpedo tubes
- 2 x 55,0 cm torpedoes
Performance
- Machinery and speed
- 22000 shp, 35,5 kn
Service record
Construction record
- Laid down
- At. et Chant. de France Dünkirchen, 1934
- Launched
- 17.03.1937
- Commissioned
- October 1938
- Fate
- sunk 24.11.1943