Torpedoboot Ausland

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The Torpedoboot Ausland ("foreign torpedo boats") were small destroyers or large torpedo boats captured by Nazi Germany and incorporated into the Kriegsmarine. They were assigned a number beginning with TA.

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Ex-French ships

  • TA1 (ex Le Fier): Scuttled while incomplete August 1944
  • TA2 (ex L'Agile): Scuttled while incomplete August 1944
  • TA3 (ex L'Alsacien): Broken up 1944
  • TA4 (ex L'Entreprenant): Broken up 1944
  • TA5 (ex Le Farouche): Scuttled while incomplete August 1944
  • TA6 (ex Le Corse): Scuttled while incomplete August 1944
  • TA9 (ex Bombarde) sunk by air raid 23 August 1944 in the Tyrrhenian Sea
  • TA10 (ex La Pomone) heavily damaged by HMS Eclipse off Lindos on 23 September 1943, later scuttled at Rhodes
  • TA11 (ex L'Iphigénie) sunk by Italian MAS boats at Piombino on 11 September 1943
  • TA12 (ex Baliste) not used by the Germans because of poor material condition
  • TA13 (ex La Bayonnaise) not used by the Germans because of poor material condition

Ex-Norwegian ships

Ex-Italian ships

Notes

  1. 1 2 Conway p271
  2. 1 2 Conway p379
  3. TA7&8: M Emmerich at german navy.de
  4. -TA14 page at german-navy.de
  5. 1 2 3 Conway p299
  6. -TA15 at german-navy.de
  7. Conway p298
  8. TA16at german-navy.de
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 Conway p287
  10. TA19 at german-navy.de
  11. TA20 at german-navy.de
  12. "HMS Avon Vale, escort destroyer". Navalhistory.net. Retrieved 9 December 2012.
  13. TA21 at german-navy.de
  14. 1 2 3 Conway p286
  15. ""Tuskegee Airmen War Accomplishments"". Our World War II Veterans. 7 September 2013. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  16. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Conway p303
  17. 1 2 Conway p301
  18. 1 2 Conway p300
  19. Conway p304
  20. Conway p302

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