Profile drawing of TA14
1356 tDisplacement
94,1 mLength
36 knSpeed
27.08.1927 (28.10.1943 in German services)Service status

Wartime history

Capture and fate

The Italian destroyer Turbine was captured in Piraeus, Greece in September 1943. After being equipped with additional 3,7 and 2 cm antiaircraft guns, the then called TA14 was attached to the 9th TFlottila operating in the Aegean Sea. Until 1944 it was mainly used for escort duty and was hit by air launched rockets on 01.02.1944 at Samos, escorting the merchant ship Leda. After repairs the ship joined the TFlottila again in May 1944, but was damaged by explosives laid by sabotage units on 19.06.1944 and was sunk during its repairs in an air attack on 16.09.1944.

Ship data

Technical profile

Dimensions, weapons and machinery.

Dimensions

Displacement
1356 t
Length
94,1 m
Beam
9,20 m
Draft
3,64m

Armament

Main battery
4 x 12,5 cm
Additional guns
3 x 3,7 cm
Additional guns
18 x 2 cm
Torpedo tubes
3 x 53,3 cm torpedoes

Performance

Machinery and speed
40000 shp, 36 kn

Service record

Construction record

Laid down
Nicolo Odero Sestri-Ponente, 1925
Launched
21.07.1927
Commissioned
27.08.1927 (28.10.1943 in German services)
Fate
sunk 15.09.1944