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TA22 as Giuseppe Missori I thank Tony Pegler (Australia),  for the correction of information on this page

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
TA22 (ex-Giuseppe Missori)			Odero, Sestri Ponente, Italy	1/1914	20.12.1915	3/1916 // 12.1943	damaged 25.6.1944, stricken 11.8.1944
TA35 (ex-Giuseppe Dezza, ex-Pilade Bronzetti)			Odero, Sestri Ponente, Italy	9.1913	26.10.1915	1.1916 // 6.1944	sunk 17.8.1944

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	740
Displacement full, t	900
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, 4 Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.	16000
Max speed, kts	30
Fuel, t	oil 150
Endurance, nm(kts)	1700(15)
Armament	2 x 1 - 102/35 M1914-15, 6 x 1 - 20/65 M1940, 2 x 1 - 450 TT, 10 mines
Complement	95

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Project history

Former outdated Italian torpedo boats of Pilo class. Guiseppe Missori 10.9.1943 was captured by German troops at Durazzo (Albania) and commissioned 3.12.1943 by Germans as TA22, but till January, 1944 she had partially Italian crew. Guiseppe Dezza 16.9.1943 was scuttled at Fiume to avoid capture by Germans but raised, repaired and 9.6.1944 commissioned by Kriegsmarine as TA35.

Modernizations

1944, TA22: - 1 x 1 - 102/35, 2 x 1 - 450 TT; + 4 x 1 - 20/65 M1940, 1 x 2 - 533 TT

1944, TA35: + 9 - 20/65 M1940

Naval service

Both served on Adriatic Sea. TA22 25.6.1944 was hard damaged by US aircraft SE off Trieste, 11.8.1944 disarmed and 2.5.1945 scuttled at Trieste. TA35 was lost on a mine off Pola 17.8.1944.

I thank Tony Pegler (Australia), for the correction of information on this page