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TA18

Torpedo Boat 1921 - 1944  Palesto  Class


TA17

Captured Italian Cacciatorpediniere Solferino, Palestro class


Contruction Data

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
Costs:     

Technical Data

Size:     1046 t
Length:     81,2 m
Beam:     8,02 m
Draft:     2,88 m
Armament:     3 x 10,2 cm; 1 x 3,7 cm; 6 x 2 cm;
  4 x 45 cm torpedoes; Mines
Performance:     22000 shp, 32,0 kn

History

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 commisioned 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.


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