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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
TA31 (ex-Dardo)			Odero, Sestri Ponente, Italy	1.1929	6.9.1930	1.1932 // 6.1944	damaged 25.10.1944, never repaired

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1400
Displacement full, t	2116
Length, m	95.3 wl 96.2 oa
Breadth, m	9.75
Draught, m	2.89
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.	44000
Max speed, kts	30
Fuel, t	oil 310
Endurance, nm(kts)	2800(15)
Armament	2 x 2 - 120/50 Ansaldo 1926, 2 x 1 - 37/54 M1939, 3 x 2 - 20/65 M1935, 5 x 1 - 20/65 M1939, 1 x 3 - 533 TT, 30 mines
Electronic equipment	FuMO 21 radar
Complement	195

Standard scale images

Project history

Former Italian destroyer, a lead ship of of the same name class. In 1941 she has sunk at Palermo, later raised and put in repair in which course the breadth was increased on 1.2m, director was removed, German-made radar was fitted. 9.9.1943 she was captured by German troops in Genoa and after end of repair 18.6.1944 entered German service as TA31. Because of poor quality of repair torpedo boat suffered from machinery unreliability, real speed did not exceed 30kts.

Modernizations

1944: + 2 x 1 - 37/54 M1939.

Naval service

25.10.1944 TA31 was damaged at Genoa by American aircraft and stricken from fleet list, 24.4.1945 she was scuttled at Genoa.