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TA15

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
TA17 (ex-Francesco Crispi), 11.1943- TA15			Pattison, Napoli, Italy	2.1923	12.9.1925	4.1927 // 10.1943	sunk  8.3.1944

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	965
Displacement full, t	1457
Length, m	84.0 wl 84.9 oa
Breadth, m	8.60
Draught, m	2.98 normal
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Belluzzo geared steam turbines, 3 Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.	36000
Max speed, kts	35
Fuel, t	oil 233
Endurance, nm(kts)	1300(15)
Armament	2 x 2 - 120/45 M1926, 4 x 1 - 20/65 M1939, 2 x 2 - 533 TT, 2 DCT
Complement	174

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Project history

Former Italian destroyer of Sella class, captured by German troops in September 1943. Real max speed was about 28kts. In 1944 she had serious problems with machinery: only port turbine gear unit was operable, max speed was no more than 15kts.

Modernizations

late 1943: - 1 x 2 - 533 TT; + 1 x 1 - 40/56 FlaK 28, 2 x 1 - 37/54 M1939

early 1944: only one shaft was operable, maximal speed was 15 kts; + 1 x 4 - 20/65 C/38

Naval service

TA15 served in Aegean Sea and was sunk 8.3.1944 off Heraklion (Crete) by rockets from British aircraft, later salvaged but sunk again by British aircraft 12.10.1944 while fitting out.