TA21 torpedo boat (1914 / 1943)

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Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
TA21 Wildfang (ex-Insidioso)			Pattison, Naples, Italy	7/1912	30.9.1913	7/1914 // 11.1943	sunk 5.11.1944

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	758
Displacement full, t	890
Length, m	72.5 wl 73.0 oa
Breadth, m	7.32
Draught, m	2.33
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Tosi steam turbines, 3 Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.	12000
Max speed, kts	24
Fuel, t	oil 128
Endurance, nm(kts)	1700(15)
Armament	1 x 1 - 102/45 S-A M1917, 2 x 2 - 20/65 M1939, 1 x 2 - 533 TT
Complement	130

Standard scale images

Insidioso 1941

Project history

Former outdated Italian torpedo boat of Indomito class, the first class of Italian "Three-funnel" turbine-driven destroyers. She was stricken in 1938, but in 1941 commissioned again after modernization: one boiler and a fore funnel were removed, speed has fallen to 24kts. 10.9.1943 she was captured at Pola by German troops and 8.11.1943 commissioned as TA21.

Modernizations

late 1943: - 1 x 2 - 533 TT; + 1 x 1 - 102/45 S-A M1917, 5 x 1 - 20/65 M1940, 2 x 1 - 13.2/76

Naval service