Solferino
1942
(Optatus OPT-S-65AT)
- Class: Palestro - 4 torpedo boats of 1915
- Displacement: 889 tons standard; 1,093 tons full load
- Dimensions: 268'8" x 26'3" x 8'10"
- Machinery: 2 shaft geared turbines, 18,000 shp = 32 knots
- Armament: 4-4"/45, 2-3"/40 AA guns; 4-17.7in TT; fitted for minelaying
- Complement: 118
- Builder: Orlando, Leghorn
- Laid down: 21 Apr 1917
- Launched: 28 Apr 1920
- Completed: 31 Oct 1921
- Notes: Originally classified as a destroyer when built; reclassified as a torpedo boat 1 Oct 1938. Captured by the Germans in Suda Bay, 9 Sep 1943, recommissioned under their colors on 25 Jul 1944 under the designation TA 18. Damaged 19 Oct 1944 in action with British destroyers Termagant and Tuscan off Skiathos, in the Aegean; beached and destroyed by her crew.
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