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TA20

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Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
TA20 (ex-Audace)		1349	Yarrow, Scotstoun, UK	10/1913	27.9.1916	3/1917 // 10.1943	sunk 1.11.1944

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	890
Displacement full, t	1152
Length, m	83.9 wl 87.6 oa
Breadth, m	8.38
Draught, m	2.50
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Brown-Curtis steam turbines, 4 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	22000
Max speed, kts	27
Fuel, t	oil 248
Endurance, nm(kts)	2180(15)
Armament	2 x 1 - 102/35 M1914-15, 10 x 2 - 20/65 M1939, 20 mines
Complement	127

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Project history

Laid down for the IJN as Kawakaze, during completion in 1916 transferred to Italy as Audace. In 1938 destroyer was converted to a command and control ship of the radio-controlled target ship San Marco (TTs were removed), but continued to be rated as torpedo boat. 12.9.1943 Audace was captured by German troops in Venice and commissioned by Germans 21.10.1943 as TA20.

Modernizations

late 1943: - 10 x 2 - 20/65; + 1 x 2 - 37/54 M1938, 1 x 4 - 20/65 C/38, 6 x 1 - 20/65 C/38

Naval service

TA20 served on Adriatic. 1.11.1944 she was sunk by British escort destroyers Avon Vale and Wheatland at Pago Island.