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TORPEDO SHIPS

TA1 torpedo boats

Le Fier

TA1

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
TA1 (ex-Le Fier)     A C de Bretagne, Nantes, France 1.1939 12.3.1940 --- scuttled incomplete 11.8.1944
TA2 (ex-L'Agile)     A C de Bretagne, Nantes, France 4.1939 23.5.1940 --- sunk incomplete 11.8.1944
TA3 (ex-L'Alscien)     A C de la Loire, Nantes, France 4.1939 1942 --- cancelled 7.1943
TA4 (ex-L'Entreprenant)     A C de la Loire, Nantes, France 1.1939 25.5.1940 --- sunk incomplete 16.9.1943
TA5 (ex-Le Farouche)     A C de la Loire, Nantes, France 4.1939 19.10.1940 --- scuttled incomplete 11.8.1944
TA6 (ex-Le Corse)     A C de la Loire, Nantes, France 1940 4.4.1942 --- cancelled 7.1943

  

Displacement standard, t

1087

Displacement full, t

1443

Length, m

90.0 wl 93.2 oa

Breadth, m

9.28

Draught, m

3.08

No of shafts

2

Machinery

TA1 - 3: 2 sets Rateau-Bretagne geared steam turbines, 3 Indret boilers

TA4 - 6: 2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Indret boilers

Power, h. p.

28000

Max speed, kts

33

Fuel, t

oil 290

Endurance, nm(kts) 2170(19)

Armament

3 x 1 - 105/42 SK C/32, 2 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 1 x 4 - 20/65 C/38, 5 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 2 x 3 - 533 TT

Electronic equipment FuMO 28 radar, FuMB 3 Bali, FuMB 4 Sumatra ECM suites

Complement

167

Project history: ex-French torpedo boats, captured on construction. TA2 and TA4 were sunk by American bombers 11.8.1944.

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