List of captured ships of the Marina Regia 1920–1943

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The list includes ships that Italy received as reparations after the First World War and those ships that the Regia Marina captured or confiscated before or during the Second World War .

Italy received the reparation ships from the German and Austro-Hungarian fleets in 1920, the captured ships before the Second World War came from the Italian occupation of Albania , those of the Second World War came after the surrender of Yugoslavia in April 1941 and after the self-sinking of the Vichy fleet on November 27, 1942 in Toulon and on December 8, 1942 in Vichy-controlled Bizerta in Tunisia to the Regia Marina.

Germany

Light cruisers

Small cruiser SMS Strasbourg

Torpedo boats

Destroyer Ardimentoso

Minesweepers

  • Abastro / Cotrone (ex M 120 )
  • Meteo / Veste (ex M 119 ): Sunk on September 11, 1943, no longer repaired.

Austria-Hungary

Light cruisers

Small cruiser SMS Helgoland

destroyer

Albania

Smaller units

  • Auxiliary gunboat Illiria
  • Coastal defense boats Tirana , Saranda , Durrës and Shëngjin : taken during the Italian occupation of Albania on April 7, 1939; Usage unclear; three boats returned after the end of the war.

Greece

Ammunition transporter

  • Palermo (ex Greek Athinai , ex British Scottish Prince )

United Kingdom

Ammunition transporter

  • Pluto (ex British Dalesman )

Yugoslavia

Light cruisers

School cruiser Dalmacija
  • Cattaro (ex Niobe , ex Dalmacija )

destroyer

Destroyer Dubrovnik
  • Premuda (ex Dubrovnik )
  • Lubiana (ex Ljubljana of the Belgrade class )
  • Sebenico (ex Beograd the Belgrade class )
  • Spalato (ex Split ): Captured unfinished in Split in April 1941. Not finished and self-sunk until the armistice. Completion after the war.

Torpedo boats

  • T 1 (ex T 1 ): Captured in April 1941, returned to Yugoslavia in December 1943.
  • T 3 (ex T 3 )
  • T 5 (ex T 5 ): Captured in April 1941, returned to Yugoslavia in December 1943.
  • T 6 (ex T 6 ): Captured in April 1941, sunk on September 11, 1943.
  • T 7 (ex T 7 ): captured in April 1941, German booty as TA 34 in September 1943 , sunk on June 24, 1944.
  • T 8 (ex T 8 ): Captured in April 1941, sunk by the German Air Force on September 11, 1943.

Submarines

  • - (ex Hrabri ): Captured in April 1941, not put into service and scrapped.
  • Francesco Rismondo (ex Osvetnik ). Captured in April 1941, used as a school boat. Self-sunk in September 1943.
  • Antonio Bajamonti (ex Smeli ): Captured in April 1941, used as a school boat. Self-sunk in September 1943.

Speed ​​boats

  • MAS 1D (ex Uskok ): Captured in April 1941, sunk near Mljet in April 1942 .
  • MAS 2D / MS 47 (ex Cetnik ): Captured in April 1941, deleted in September 1943.
  • MAS 3D / MS 41 (ex Orjen ): captured in April 1941, self-sunk in September 1943.
  • MAS 4D / MS 42 (ex Velebit ): captured in April 1941, taken over by the Navy as S 2 in September 1943 , sunk near Saloniki in October 1944.
  • MAS 5D / MS 43 (ex Dinara ), captured In April 1941, in September 1943 as S 3 taken, sunk in October 1944 in Thessaloniki.
  • MAS 6D / MS 44 (ex Triglav ): Captured in April 1941, taken over by the Kriegsmarine as S 4 in September 1943 , sunk near Saloniki in October 1944.
  • MAS 7D / MS 45 (ex Suvobor ): Captured in April 1941, sunk in September 1943.
  • MAS 8D / MS 46 (ex Rudnik ): Captured in April 1941, taken over by the Navy as S 5 in September 1943 , sunk near Saloniki in October 1944.

Mine layers

School cruiser Dalmacija with minesweepers Mljet and Meljine
  • Arbe (ex Malinska ): Captured in April 1941, returned to Yugoslavia on February 16, 1944.
  • Ugliano (ex Marjan ): captured in April 1941, German booty in September 1943; Remaining unclear.
  • Solta (ex Meljine ): Captured in April 1941, returned to Yugoslavia on December 7, 1943.
  • Meleda (ex Mljet ): Captured in April 1941, returned to Yugoslavia on December 7, 1943.
  • Pasman (ex Mosor ): Captured in April 1941, in September 1943 via the Kriegsmarine to the Croatian Navy, stranded on December 31, 1944.
  • Eso (ex Sokol , ex German M 144 ): sunk on January 19, 1943 by an aircraft torpedo.
  • Zuri / Oriole (ex Gavran / Labud , ex German M 106 ): sunk on July 10, 1943 in the port of Augusta in Sicily by air raid.
  • Selve (ex Galeb , ex German M 100 ): sunk on November 6, 1942 off Benghazi in Libya by a British air raid.
  • Unie (ex Kobac , ex German M 121 ): sunk on January 30, 1943 in Bizerta by air raid.
  • Zirona (ex Jastreb , ex German M 112 ): beached on November 25, 1942 in Benghazi after an air raid.
  • Vergada (ex Orao , ex German M 97 ): returned to Yugoslavia in December 1943.

Gunboats

  • Alba / Zagrabia (ex Beli Orao ): Captured in Kotor in April 1941, returned to Yugoslavia on December 7, 1943.

Sail training ships

Merchant ships

  • Cattaro D 36 (ex Jugoslavija )
  • Lubiana D 27 (ex Ljubljana )

France

Heavy cruisers

Cruiser Dupleix
  • FR 14 (ex Dupleix ): self-sunk on November 27, 1942, lifted and intended as a training ship FR 14 , finally sunk by bombs on March 11, 1944.

Light cruisers

  • FR 11 (ex Jean de Vienne ): Sunk on November 27, 1942, lifted on February 18, 1943. Repairs with armistice suspended. Capsized after a US bomb attack on August 18, 1944.
  • FR 12 (ex La Galissonnière ): Sunk on November 27, 1942, lifted on March 3, 1943. Armistice repairs suspended, sunk on August 18, 1944 by American air raid.

destroyer

Destroyer Chacal
  • FR 21 (ex Lion ): scuttled on November 27, 1942, in service on January 19, 1943 and scuttled in La Spezia on September 9, 1943.
  • FR 22 (ex Panthère of the Chacal class )
  • FR 23 (ex Tigre of the Chacal class )
  • FR 24 (ex Valmy ): Sunk on November 27, 1942, not back in service.
  • FR 31 (ex Trombe ): Self-sunk in Toulon on November 27th, in service on January 19, 1943. Returned to France on October 28, 1943.
  • FR 32 (ex Sciroco , ex Le Corsaire ): self- scuttled in Toulon on November 27; not in service and sunk in Genoa in 1943.
  • FR 33 (ex L'Adroit , ex L'Epée ): Scuttled on November 27, 1942, not put into service.
  • FR 34 (ex Lansquenet ): Sunk on November 27, 1942 in Toulon. Not in service. German booty on September 9, 1943. Further construction as TA 48 not completed, self-sunk in Genoa in May 1945.
  • FR 35 (ex Bison , ex Le Flibustier ): Taken over unfinished on November 27, 1942, not in service, in September 1943 German booty, used as a smoke generator, in spring 1944 by Allied air raids and on June 25, 1944 by collision with German U. -Boat damaged and sunk in the port of Brégaillon-Toulon. Scrapped in 1945.
  • FR 36 (ex Le Foudroyont , ex Fleuret ): Scuttled on November 27, 1942, not in service.
  • FR 37 (ex Le Hardi ): not in service, sunk in Genoa in April 1945.

Torpedo boats

Submarines

Submarine Morse of the Requin class

Avisos, corvettes, mine layers, minesweepers

  • FR 51 : (ex La Batailleuse ): Captured on December 8, 1942, returned to service, sunk in La Spezia on September 9, 1943.
  • FR 52 (ex Commandant Rivière ): Captured on December 8, 1942, returned to service, sunk by US air raid on May 28, 1943.
  • FR 53 (ex Chamois ): Sunk on November 27, 1942, not back in service.
  • FR 54 (ex L'Impeteuse ): Sunk on November 27, 1942, not back in service.
  • FR 55 (ex La Curieuse ): Sunk on November 27, 1942, not back in service.
  • FR 60 (ex Castor , ex Russian Kosma Minin ): Captured on December 8, 1942, sunk in Lake Bizerte on May 6, 1943 .

literature

  • Maurizio Brescia: Mussolini's Navy. A Reference Guide to the Regia Marina 1930-1945. E-Book, Kindle Edition 2012, ISBN 978-1-84832-115-1 .
  • Wilhelm Donko: A brief History of the Austrian Navy. epubli, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-8442-2129-9 .
  • Gabriele Faggioni: Italian Warships 1919–1945. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-613-03551-5 .
  • Harald Fock: Fleet Chronicle. The active warships involved in both world wars and their whereabouts. Koehler's publishing company, revised and expanded version Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-7822-0788-2 .
  • Zvonimir Freivogel: Navy in the Adriatic. Ex-Yugoslav warships under the German flag. (= Navy Arsenal. Volume 40). Podzun-Pallas-Verlag, Wölfersheim-Berstadt 1998, ISBN 3-7909-0640-9 .
  • Robert Gardiner, Roger Chesneau: Conway's All the world's fighting ships 1922-1946. Conway Maritime Press, London 1980, ISBN 0-8317-0303-2 .
  • Erich Gröner, Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945 . Volume 2: Torpedo boats, destroyers, speedboats, minesweepers, mine clearance boats. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1983, ISBN 3-7637-4801-6 .
  • Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945 . Volume 3: Submarines, auxiliary cruisers, mine ships, net layers and barrier breakers . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1985, ISBN 3-7637-4802-4 .
  • John Jourdan, Jean Moulin: French Cruisers, 1922-1956. E-Book, Kindle Edition 2015.
  • John Jourdan, Jean Moulin: French Destroyers: Torpilleurs d'Escadre and Contre-Torpilleurs, 1922–1956. E-Book, Kindle Edition 2015.
  • Hannsjörg Kowark : The end of the French fleet in World War II. Toulon 1940-1944 . Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-8132-0548-7 .
  • Henri Le Masson: The French Navy. vol. 2, coll. "Navies of the Second World War". MacDonald & Co., London 1969, ISBN 978-0-356-02384-7 .
  • Vincent P. O'Hara, Enrico Cernuschi: Dark Navy. The Regia Marina and the Armistice of September 8, 1943. Nimble Books LLC / E-Book, Kindle Edition

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