Giuseppe Missori 1940
TA22 1943
Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
TA22 (ex-Giuseppe Missori) | Odero, Sestri Ponente, Italy | 1/1914 | 20.12.1915 | 3/1916 // 12.1943 | damaged 25.6.1944, stricken 11.8.1944 | ||
TA35 (ex-Giuseppe Dezza, ex-Pilade Bronzetti) | Odero, Sestri Ponente, Italy | 9.1913 | 26.10.1915 | 1.1916 // 6.1944 | sunk 17.8.1944 |
Displacement standard, t |
740 |
Displacement full, t |
900 |
Length, m |
72.5 wl 73.0 oa |
Breadth, m |
7.32 |
Draught, m |
2.33 |
No of shafts |
2 |
Machinery |
2 Tosi steam turbines, 4 Thornycroft boilers |
Power, h. p. |
16000 |
Max speed, kts |
30 |
Fuel, t |
oil 150 |
Endurance, nm(kts) | 1700(15) |
Armament |
2 x 1 - 102/35 M1914-15, 6 x 1 - 20/65 M1940, 2 x 1 - 450 TT, 10 mines |
Complement |
95 |
Project history: Former outdated Italian torpedo boats of Pilo class. Guiseppe Missori 10.9.1943 was captured by German troops at Durazzo (Albania) and commissioned 3.12.1943 by Germans as TA22, but till January, 1944 she had partially Italian crew. Guiseppe Dezza 16.9.1943 was scuttled at Fiume to avoid capture by Germans but raised, repaired and 9.6.1944 commissioned by Kriegsmarine as TA35.
Modernizations: 1944, TA22: - 1 x 1 - 102/35, 2 x 1 - 450 TT; + 4 x 1 - 20/65 M1940, 1 x 2 - 533 TT
1944, TA35: + 9 - 20/65 M1940
Naval service: Both served on Adriatic Sea. TA22 25.6.1944 was hard damaged by US aircraft SE off Trieste, 11.8.1944 disarmed and 2.5.1945 scuttled at Trieste. TA35 was lost on a mine off Pola 17.8.1944.
TA22 as Giuseppe Missori
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