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TA22 torpedo boats (1916/1943-1944)

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Project history: Former outdated Italian torpedo boats of Pilo class.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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