Torpedoboot Ausland

• Former French s, under construction in France. None were completed for the Germans. :* (ex Le Fier): Scuttled while incomplete August 1944 :* (ex ''L'Agile''): Scuttled while incomplete August 1944 :* (ex ''L'Alsacien''): Broken up 1944 :* (ex ''L'Entreprenant''): Broken up 1944 :* (ex Le Farouche): Scuttled while incomplete August 1944 :* (ex Le Corse): Scuttled while incomplete August 1944 • Former French La Melpomène-class torpedo boats taken over in April 1943 :* (ex Bombarde) sunk by air raid 23 August 1944 in the Tyrrhenian Sea :* (ex La Pomone) heavily damaged by off Lindos on 23 September 1943, later scuttled at Rhodes :* (ex ''L'Iphigénie'') sunk by Italian MAS boats at Piombino on 11 September 1943 :* (ex Baliste) not used by the Germans because of poor material condition :* (ex La Bayonnaise) not used by the Germans because of poor material condition ==Ex-Norwegian ships==

• Former Royal Norwegian Navy s, (also referred to as "Improved Sleipnir destroyers) captured during the German invasion of Norway in 1940, while still under construction and yet to be named. Taken over and designated ZN (Zerstörer Norwegen) 4 & 5, they were reclassified as torpedo boats in 1941. :* (ex-ZN-4): Launched but not completed due to sabotage by the Norwegian resistance movement :* (ex-ZN-5): Launched but not completed • Four other vessels, (of the Sleipner-class torpedo boats/destroyers) were also taken over, but were named for past German gunboats and not included in the TA class. • One more ex-Norwegian small destroyer, Troll, was also captured and served in the Kriegsmarine as torpedo boat for a brief time before being converted to a distillation vessel to provide steam, retaining her Norwegian name. The conversion was due to her obsolete nature. ==Ex-Italian ships==

• : (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. • : (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. • : (ex-Castelfidardo, Italian ), captured in the Aegean Sea, September 1943. Sunk at Heraklion after damage by RAF air raid • : (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. • : (ex-Solferino, Italian Palestro-class destroyer), captured in Piraeus 9 September 1943. Operated in the Aegean, sunk by British destroyers and 19 October 1944. • : ex-Audace, Italian Audace-class destroyer. Operated in the Adriatic. Sunk by British s and south of Lussino on 1 November 1944. • : (ex-Insidioso, Italian ), Sunk by aircraft torpedo in Fiume on 5 November 1944 • : (ex-Giuseppe Missori, Italian Pilo-class destroyer), Served in the Adriatic. Severely damaged in airstrike by Tuskegee Airmen on 25 June 1944; decommissioned on 8 November and scuttled on 5 February 1945. • : (ex-Impavido, Italian ). Served on the west coast of Italy. • : (ex-Arturo, Italian ). Sunk (with TA29) in action with British destroyers and in the Battle of the Ligurian Sea on 18 March 1945. • : (ex-Intrepido, Italian Ciclone-class torpedo boat). Served on the west coast of Italy. • : 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. • : (ex-Corsaro, ex Squadrista, Italian ). Not completed, sunk on 4 September 1944 while running trials in Genoa. • : ex-Carrista, Soldati-class destroyer. Not completed. • : (ex-), Italian ). Captured at Fiume, served in Adriatic. Sunk in an air raid on Trieste 17 February 1945. • : (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. • : (ex-Lira, Italian ). Destroyed in air raid at La Spezia, 4 November 1944. ==Notes==