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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
TA7 (ex-Generale Achille Papa), 10.1943- SG20			Odero, Sestri Ponente, Italy	12/1919	8.12.1921	2.1922 // 10.1943	damaged 1.11.1943, repair incomplete

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	832
Displacement full, t	890
Length, m	73.5
Breadth, m	7.32
Draught, m	2.46 normal 3.01 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Tosi steam turbines, 4 Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.	15500
Max speed, kts	25
Fuel, t	oil 157
Endurance, nm(kts)	400(25)
Armament	2 x 1 - 37/54 M1939, 6 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 x 2 - 20/65 M1935, 8 x 1 - 20/65 M1939, 4 x 1 - 86 R Ag M42/43 AA RL, 6 DCT
Electronic equipment	presumably hydrophone
Complement	100

Standard scale images

Project history

Former Italian torpedo boat (old destroyer) Generale Achille Papa, captured by German troops at Genoa 9.9.1943 and commissioned by Kriegsmarine 17.10.1943 as torpedo boat TA7, but 18.10.1943 reclassified to fast escort SG20.

Modernizations

some days after commissioning ship was armed with 3 x 1 - 102/45 S-A M1917, 3 x 1 - 37/54 M1939, 6 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 x 2 - 20/65 M1935, 8 x 1 - 20/65 M1939, 6 DCT, but was soon rearmed.

Naval service

SG20 was damaged 1.11.1943 by a mine and later foundered near pier because hull leaks, during repair 6.1.1944 wreck was destroyed by American aircraft at Genoa, salvaged but 25.4.1945 scuttled at Ostia as breakwater.