Italian torpedo boat Tifone
.jpg) Tifone, 4 April 1943
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| History | |
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| Name | Tifone |
| Builder | Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico, Trieste |
| Laid down | 17 June 1941 |
| Launched | 31 March 1942 |
| Completed | 11 July 1942 |
| Fate | Scuttled 7 May 1943 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class and type | Ciclone-class torpedo boat |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 82.5 m (270 ft 8 in) |
| Beam | 9.9 m (32 ft 6 in) |
| Draught | 3.77 m (12 ft 4 in) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 26 knots (48 km/h; 30 mph) |
| Complement | 154 |
| Sensors and processing systems | Sonar and hydrophones |
| Armament |
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Tifone was a Ciclone-class torpedo boat that served with the Italian Navy during the Second World War. The vessel entered service on 11 July 1942 and was scuttled on 7 May 1943 at Korbous, Tunisia. She escorted the last Axis convoy to reach Africa in World War II.[2]
Service history
Tifone's
Tunisian campaign. she took part, both as escort vessel and supply ship, of the Cigno convoy, which beat off a British destroyer attack on 17 April 1943. Tifone had her fuel bunkers loaded with aviation spirit for Bizerte during the battle.[3] Tifone successfully escorted the transport ship Belluno to Tunis for a second time on 4 May 1943, in what became the last successful Axis convoy to Africa, carrying out another fuel-delivery mission to Bizerte on the same trip. The small convoy successfully eluded a flotilla of British destroyers that had sunk the transport Campobasso and her escort the torpedo boat Perseo.[2] Tifone was severely damaged in harbor by United States Army Air Forces aircraft while planning a return convoy to Palermo. She was scuttled by her own crew on 7 May 1943 at the small fishing port of Korbous, Tunisia.[4]
References
- ^ Chesneau, p. 303
- ^ a b Taverna, Claudio. ""L'ultima torpediniera per Tunisi", del sottocapo di bordo Alberto Ferrari". Trentino Libero (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2019-04-25. Retrieved 2019-04-25.
- ^ Colombo, Lorenzo (4 July 2015). "Tifone". Con la pelle appesa a un chiodo (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-05-27.
- ^ Fraccaroli, p. 95
Sources
- Chesneau, Roger, ed. (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
- Fraccaroli, Aldo (1974) [1968]. Italian Warships of World War II. London: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0002-6.
- Whitley, M. J. (1988). Destroyers of World War 2. London: Cassell Publishing. ISBN 1-85409-521-8.
External links
- Historical Ships Marina Militare website
