T22 is commissioned.
102,5mOverall length
1754tMaximum displacement
32,3 knMaximum speed
206Complement
Design and service
The story of Flottentorpedoboot T22
T22 (1943) Flottentorpedoboot T22 was part of the 4th T-Flottila after being commissioned. Sent to France in October 1942 and mainly used for escorting convoys, blockade breakers and U-Boats in the Gulf of Biscay. Returned to Germany in January 1944 for maintenance and then attached to the 6th Torpedoboot flotilla.
Transferred to the Baltic Sea, the ship was sunk after a German mine hit on 18 August 1944 in the Narwa Bay at 59°42'N,27°44'E.
Operational history
Service timeline
T22 is sent to La Pallice.
T4, T12, T13, T21 and T22 are sent to the Biskay to meet the blockade runner Wismar. The search is abandoned as the ship cannot be found.
Falke, T13, T19 and T22 escort the blockade runner Elm into the Biscay.
At a glance
Technical profile
Dimensions, armament, protection and performance.
Dimensions
- Size (Max)
- 1754t
- Length (Total)
- 102,5m
- Length (Waterline)
- 97,0 m
- Beam
- 10,0 m
- Draft
- 3,22 m
- Crew
- 206
Armament
- 10,5 cm L/45 C/32
- 4
- 3,7 cm L/83 C/30
- 4
- 2 cm MG L/65 C/39
- 2-9
- 53,3 cm Torpedo tubes
- 6
- Mines
- 50
Machinery
- Shafts
- 2
- Turbines
- 2
- Type
- Wagner Type Geared Turbines (Schichau build)
Performance
- Total Performance
- 32560 shp
- Speed
- 32,3 kn
- Range
- 2400 sm at 19 kn
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Models
Ship models in 1/1250 scale.
Construction record
Flottentorpedoboot T22
- Laid down
- Schichau Elbing, 1940
- Launched
- 1941
- Commissioned
- 28.02.1942
- Fate
- sunk 18.08.1944
- Cost
- 5,7 Mio Reichsmark