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TA14 torpedo boat (1927/1943)

Turbine 1940

TA14 1944

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
TA14 (ex-Turbine)     Odero, Sestri Ponente, Italy 3.1925 21.4.1927 8.1927 // 9.1943 sunk 15.9.1944

  

Displacement standard, t

1073

Displacement full, t

1670

Length, m

93.7 wl 94.1 oa

Breadth, m

9.20

Draught, m

3.64

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Thornycroft boilers

Power, h. p.

40000

Max speed, kts

27

Fuel, t

oil 400

Endurance, nm(kts) 2150(15)

Armament

2 x 2 - 120/45 M1926, 3 x 1 - 37/54 M1939, 4 x 2 - 20/65 M1935, 10 x 1 - 20/65 M1939, 1 x 3 - 533 TT, 2 DCT

Electronic equipment

FuMO 28 radar

Complement

180

Project history: Ex-Italian destroyer, the lead ship of of the same name class, captured at Piraeus in September, 1943. Real max speed was 27kts.

Modernizations: None

Naval service: Acted in Aegean Sea. TA14 was damaged by Allied aircraft 1.2.1944, hard damaged as a result of sabotage 19.6.1944 and lost 15.9.1944 at Salamis during raid of American bombers.

TA14 as Turbine

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