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.
(ex-, Italian), captured in Piraeus, September 1943. Served in the Aegean Sea and sunk by US Army Air Force in Salamis on 16 September 1944.[4] [5]
(ex-Francesco Crispi, Italian), Captured in the Aegean in September 1943. Sunk by air raid near Heraklion on 8 March 1944. 34 men were killed.[6] [7]
(ex-Castelfidardo, Italian), captured in the Aegean Sea, September 1943. Sunk at Heraklion after damage by RAF air raid[8] [9]
(ex-San Martino, Italian) captured in Piraeus 9 September 1943. Operated in the Aegean, Scuttled 12 October 1944 after damage in an air raid on Salamis.[10]
(ex-Solferino, Italian Palestro-class destroyer), captured in Piraeus 9 September 1943. Operated in the Aegean, sunk by British destroyers and 19 October 1944.[9]
(ex-Calatafimi, Italian Curtatone-class destroyer), captured in the Aegean Sea, September 1943. Sunk by Greek submarine Pipinos on 9 August 1944.[9] [11]
ex-Audace, Italian Audace-class destroyer. Operated in the Adriatic. Sunk by British s and south of Lussino on 1 November 1944.[12] [13] [14]
(ex-Insidioso, Italian), Sunk by aircraft torpedo in Fiume on 5 November 1944 [15] [16]
(ex-Giuseppe Missori, Italian Pilo-class destroyer), Served in the Adriatic.[17] Severely damaged in airstrike by Tuskegee Airmen on 25 June 1944; decommissioned on 8 November and scuttled on 5 February 1945.[18]
(ex-Impavido, Italian). Served on the west coast of Italy.[19]
(ex-Intrepido, Italian Ciclone-class torpedo boat). Served on the west coast of Italy.[19]
(ex-Ardito, Italian Ciclone-class torpedo boat). Served on the west coast of Italy.[19]
(ex-, Italian). Captured in Genoa. Damaged in an air raid 25 October 1944 and scuttled 24 April 1945.[21]
Former which was captured by the Regia Marina in 1941 and renamed Premuda. Re-built by the Germans as a radar picket destroyer armed with 105 mm guns. Commissioned 18 August 1944 and served on the west coast of Italy. Lightly damaged by British destroyers in March 1945 during the Battle of the Ligurian Sea. Scuttled in Genoa 25 April 1945.[22]
(ex-Corsaro, ex Squadrista, Italian). Not completed, sunk on 4 September 1944 while running trials in Genoa.[23]
ex-Carrista, Soldati-class destroyer. Not completed.[23]
(ex-Giuseppe Dezza, Italian Pilo-class destroyer). Served in the Adriatic.[16]
(ex-Stella Polare, Italian Ariete-class torpedo boat). Mined 18 March 1944.[19]
(ex-Gladio, Italian Ariete-class torpedo boat). Transferred from the Adriatic to the 9th Torpedo Boat Flotilla in the Aegean in September 1943. On 7 October 1944 TA37 was sunk by the destroyers, and .[19]
(ex-Pugnale, Italian Ariete-class torpedo boat). She was repaired and recommissioned and on 17 February 1945, when off Trieste was severely damaged in an air attack in February and scuttled on 4 May 1945.[19]
(ex-Lancia, Italian Ariete-class torpedo boat). Damaged by bombs at Trieste and was not repaired. She was wrecked in May.[19]
(ex-Alabarda, Italian Ariete-class torpedo boat). Sunk at Venice to air attack on 23 January 1945.
Former Yugoslav destroyer Beograd, which was captured by the Italians in 1941 and renamed Sibenico served in the Adriatic and scuttled in Trieste 1 May 1945.[24]
(ex-), Italian). Captured at Fiume, served in Adriatic. Sunk in an air raid on Trieste 17 February 1945.[25]
(ex-Spica, Italian Ariete-class torpedo boat). Enlisted into German service on the 8 September 1944, but it was fully equipped only on 23 November 1944 (although it participated in the combat duties even though it was not completed). TA45 sailed to her last mission on 10 April 1945 together with TA40 (Pugnale). Her duty was to escort and protect the tank carriers in the Velebit Channel, at the time when the units of People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia started to land at the island of Rab supported by British light naval forces. TA45 was destroyed by the British motor torpedo boats which waited in the ambush near Cape Glavina on the isle of Krk.[19]
(ex-Fionda, Italian Ariete-class torpedo boat). Sunk in an incomplete state at Fiume on 20 February 1945.[19]
(ex-Balestra, Italian Ariete-class torpedo boat). Damaged on the slipway and never launched. Balestra, still on the slip, survived the war. Seized by Yugoslavian forces and completed in 1949 as Ucka. She stayed in service until 1963.[19]
(ex-T3, former Yugoslav torpedo boat in Italian service). Sunk by bombing, 20 February 1945.[26]
(ex-Lira, Italian). Destroyed in air raid at La Spezia, 4 November 1944.[27]