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REGIA MARINA (ITALY)

TORPEDO SHIPS

T1 and T5 torpedo boats (1914-1916/1941)

T1 1941

T5 1941

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
T1 group
T1 (ex-T1, ex-76T)     STT, Trieste, Austria-Hungary 6.1913 15.12.1913 7.1914 // 4.1941 to Yugoslavia 12.1943 (Голешница [Goleshnitsa])
T3 (ex-T3, ex-78T)     STT, Trieste, Austria-Hungary 10.1913 4.3.1914 8.1914 // 4.1941 captured by Germany 16.9.1943 (TA48)
T5 group
T5 (ex-T5, ex-87F)     Danubius, Porto Ré / Bergudi, Austria-Hungary 3.1914 20.3.1915 10.1915 // 4.1941 to Yugoslavia 12.1943 (Цер [Tser])
T6 (ex-T6, ex-93F)     Danubius, Porto Ré / Bergudi, Austria-Hungary 1.1915 25.11.1915 4.1916 // 4.1941 scuttled 11.9.1943
T7 (ex-T7, ex-96F)     Danubius, Porto Ré / Bergudi, Austria-Hungary 2.1915 7.7.1916 11.1916 // 4.1941 captured by Germany 9.9.1943 (TA34)
T8 (ex-T8, ex-97F)     Danubius, Porto Ré / Bergudi, Austria-Hungary 3.1915 20.8.1916 12.1916 // 4.1941 sunk 10.9.1943

   

Displacement standard, t

T1 group: 262

T5 group: 266

Displacement full, t

T1 group: 320

T5 group: 330

Length, m

T1 group: 57.3 pp 58.2 oa

T5 group: 58.5 pp 58.8 oa

Breadth, m

T1 group: 5.70

T5 group: 5.80

Draught, m

1.50

No of shafts

2

Machinery

T1 group: 2 Parsons steam turbines, 2 Yarrow boilers

T5 group: 2 AEG-Curtis steam turbines, 2 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

5000

Max speed, kts

28

Fuel, t

T1 group: coal 24 + oil 18

T5 group: coal 20 + oil 34

Endurance, nm(kts) 1200(16)

Armament

T1 group: 1 x 1 - 66/42 SFK L/45, 1 x 1 - 66/27 TAG K.09, 1 x 1 - 15/84, 2 x 2 - 450 TT

T5 group: 2 x 1 - 66/42 SFK L/45, 1 x 1 - 15/84, 2 x 2 - 450 TT

Complement

52

Project history: In April, 1941, after capitulation of Yugoslavia, six out-of-date 230t torpedo boats of Austro-Hungarian construction of the WWI-era (T1, 3, 5-8) were commissioned by Regia Marina.

Modernizations: 1942, T3: - 1 x 1 - 66/42, 1 x 1 - 66/27; + 2 x 1 - 76/30 Armstrong 1914.

1942, T5: - 2 x 1 - 66/42; + 2 x 1 - 76/30 Armstrong 1914

Naval service: T3 was captured by Germans at Rijeka 16.9.1943, commissioned by them as TA48, transferred by them to Croatian navy and sunk by Allied bombers 20.2.1945. T6 was scuttled by the crew off Casenatico, Adriatic sea. T7 was captured by Germans 8.9.1943 off Gruz, commissioned by them as TA34, transferred to Croatian Navy 17.6.1944 as T7 and sunk by British MTBs 24.6.1944. T8 was sunk by German aircraft 10.9.1943 NW off Dubrovnik.

T7 1943

 

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