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TA32 torpedo boat (1932/1944)

Dubrovnik 1941

TA32 1944

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
TA32 (ex-Premuda, ex-Dubrovnik)     Yarrow, Scotstoun, UK 6.1930 11.10.1931 5.1932 // 8.1944 scuttled 25.4.1945

  

Displacement standard, t

2080

Displacement full, t

2884

Length, m

111.1 wl 113.2 oa

Breadth, m

10.7

Draught, m

3.59

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

42000

Max speed, kts

30

Fuel, t

oil 590

Endurance, nm(kts) 7000(15)

Armament

4 x 1 - 105/42 SK C/32, 4 x 2 - 37/54 M1938, 7 x 4 - 20/65 C/38, 4 x 2 - 20/65 C/38, 1 x 3 - 533 TT, 40 mines

Electronic equipment FuMO 25 radar

Complement

220

Project history:  Former Yugoslavian destroyer Dubrovnik, captured in 1941 and entered Italian service as Premuda. 9.9.1943 she was captured by German troops at Genoa during repair. It planned to convert her to night fighter direction ship with Freya radar and 3 single 105mm guns, 2 sungle 37mm and 4 single 20mm MGs, but 18.6.1944 the decision on completion of ship as torpedo boat has followed. Real max speed was about 30kts. Ship was commissioned 18.8.1944 as TA32.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: TA32 served in Ligurian Sea, scuttled at Genoa 25.4.1945.

TA32

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