TA 48
TA 48 as T 3 in Yugoslav service in 1931
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TA 48 was a German Navy torpedo boat of the Austrian 250 t type from 1914. The designation "TA" stood for Torpedo Boats Abroad .
development
Austria-Hungary built several classes of steam torpedo boats, the largest of which were the 250 tonne type. The order to develop future torpedo boats went to the Naval Technical Committee in Pola in March 1910. There proposals were made for an offshore type of 500 t to 550 t and 30 kn and for a coastal type of 275 t and 30 kn. For reasons of cost, only the 250 t type was approved and, for propaganda reasons, was called the "deep sea torpedo boat". After some changes to the plans, eight boats (74 T to 91 T) of the new class were ordered from the STT . The Hungarian shipyard Danabius in Fiume also built torpedo boats of the 250 t type according to their own plans, which were put into service as the 82 F to 97 F. The turbine drive represented an innovation , which only allowed the high speed required. However, the first boats of the class had considerable problems with the turbines, which could only be eliminated gradually.
Service in the Austrian Navy
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The later TA 48 was completed in Fiume before the First World War and began its service as the 78 T on August 23, 1914 . During the war it took part in various actions of the light forces and was renamed to 78 in 1917 . On June 9 and 10, 1918, 78 secured the two Austro-Hungarian battleships Szent István and Tegetthoff with five other torpedo boats and a destroyer in a southbound operation to break through the Italian barrier of the Strait of Otranto, where the Szent Istvan von the motor torpedo boats MAS 15 and MAS 21 under the command of Corvette Captain Luigi Rizzo was sunk on the island of Lutrošnjak near Premuda . The boat took part in the rescue of castaways from the battleship. After these companies, 78 took part in other escort and mine detection campaigns.
Service in the Yugoslav Navy
After the collapse of Austria-Hungary, 78 was assigned to the Kingdom of SHS with three other sister ships and four other "half-sisters" of the Hungarian F-Class . When the boat was taken over, it was renamed T 3 . In the inter-war period, the sister ship T 2 (ex 77) was lost and T 4 (ex 79) was decommissioned in 1939. T 3 remained in active service with its sister ship T 1 until Yugoslavia entered the war on April 6, 1941.
Service in the Regia Marina
After the defeat of Yugoslavia in 1941, the Regia Marina was able to capture the two torpedo boats and continue to use them under the name T 1 and T 3 for coastal protection. After the Italian surrender in 1943 was T 1 after Malta settle. It was returned to Yugoslavia after the Second World War , where it was used as the guard ship PBR 91 Golesnica until 1959 .
Service in the Navy
T 3 became German booty in Fiume on September 16, 1943 and was named TA 48 when it was commissioned on October 16, 1943 . It was rebuilt, re-armed and handed over to the newly founded Croatian Navy (NDH) . During the conversion, all torpedo tubes were removed and replaced by 3.7 cm and 2 cm guns. So the boat was actually no longer allowed to keep the designation "TA" because it no longer had torpedo armament. The takeover took place on August 15, 1944 together with the passenger ship G 104 (ex Salvore ), which had been converted into an escort boat, and six KS boats (small coastal speedboats). Nevertheless, the ship still belonged to the 2nd escort flotilla of the German 11th Security Division . After one of the KS boats deserted, the Croatian Navy was disbanded and the ships were taken over by the Navy on December 13, 1944. Nevertheless, TA 48 retained its predominantly Croatian occupation until it was sunk in February 1945. The Croatian commander of TA 48 , Kapitänleutnant Gjuro Strcaj, as well as all commanders of the KS boats were brought before a court martial, but soon afterwards all were released as innocent. The commander was asked several times by the partisans with his ship to overflow, which he refused each time, which is why he was executed in captivity by the partisans after the war.
Whereabouts
TA 48 was sunk in Trieste on February 20, 1945 by Allied aircraft . On May 10, 1946, the wreck was lifted and sold to Tomsic & Co in 1947. In 1948/49 TA 48 was scrapped in Trieste.
Individual evidence
- ↑ According to the attachment to MVO Pz.AOK 2, B. 1841/44 ("Admiral Adria Naval Forces, as of July 31, 1944")
literature
- Erich Gröner: The German warships 1815-1945 , Volume 2, ISBN 3-7637-4801-6
- Z. Freivogel: Marine-Arsenal Volume 40 - Kriegsmarine in der Adria 1941–1945 , Podzun-Pallas Verlag, Wölfersheim-Berstadt 1998, ISBN 3-7909-0640-9 , pp. 27–31
- Z. Freivogel: Marine-Arsenal Volume 46 - Prey destroyers and torpedo boats of the Kriegsmarine , Podzun-Pallas Verlag, Wölfersheim-Berstadt, ISBN 3-7909-0701-4