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TA18 as Solferino

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
TA18 (ex-San Martino), 11.1943- TA17			Orlando, Livorno, Italy	4/1917	8.9.1920	10.1922 // 10.1943	damaged 18.6.1944, repair incomplete, scuttled 12.10.1944
TA18 (ex-Solferino)			Orlando, Livorno, Italy	4/1917	28.4.1920	10.1921 // 7.1944	sunk 19.10.1944

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	925
Displacement full, t	1160
Length, m	80.1 wl 81.9 oa
Breadth, m	7.52
Draught, m	2.39
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Zoelly steam turbines, 4 Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.	18000
Max speed, kts	25
Fuel, t	oil 208
Endurance, nm(kts)	600(20)
Armament	2 x 1 - 102/45 S-A M1917, 6 x 1 - 20/65 M1940, 2 x 2 - 450 TT
Complement	134

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Project history

Outdated Italian torpedo boats of Palestro class, captured at Piraeus 9.9.1943 and commissioned by Germans 28.10.1943 (TA17) and 25.7.1944 (TA18). Real max speed was about 25kts and an endurance 600(20)nm.

Modernizations

late 1943, TA17: + 1 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30

late 1943, TA18: - 2 x 2 - 450 TT; + 4 x 1 - 20/65 M1940, 1 x 2 - 533 TT

Naval service

Both served in Aegean Sea. TA17 was damaged on a mine 18.6.1944, repair was not completed, 18.9.1944 she was additionally damaged during air raid and 12.10.1944 scuttled at Salamis. TA18 19.10.1944 was damaged in battle against British destroyers Termagant and Tuscan in Aegean Sea, ran aground off Volos and destroyed.