The Torpedoboot Ausland were small destroyers or large torpedo boats captured by Nazi Germany and incorporated into the Kriegsmarine. They were assigned a number beginning with TA.
Ex-French ships
Former French s, under construction in France. None were completed for the Germans.
Former French La Melpomène-class torpedo boats taken over in April 1943
Ex-Norwegian ships
Former Royal Norwegian Navy s, captured during the German invasion of Norway in 1940, while still under construction and yet to be named. Taken over and designated ZN 4 & 5, they were reclassified as torpedo boats in 1941.
Four other vessels, 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.
TA31:. Captured in Genoa. Damaged in an air raid 25 October 1944 and scuttled 24 April 1945.
TA32: 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.
TA33:. Not completed, sunk on 4 September 1944 while running trials in Genoa.
TA34: ex-Carrista, Soldati-class destroyer. Not completed.
TA35:. Served in the Adriatic.
TA36:. Mined 18 March 1944.
TA37:. Transferred from the Adriatic to the 9th Torpedo Boat Flotilla in the Aegean in September 1943. On October 7 TA37 and the whole convoy that she was escorting were sunk by destroyers, HMS Turmagent and HMS Tuscan.
TA38. Transferred from the Adriatic to the 9th Torpedo Boat Flotilla in the Aegean in September 1943. Lost to an air attack on 13 October 1944.
TA39. Transferred from the Adriatic to the 9th Torpedo Boat Flotilla in the Aegean in September 1943. On 5 October 1944 TA38 and TA39 intercepted and sank HDML1227 and engaged the Hunt-class destroyers HMS Belvoir and HMS Waddon. Sank after striking a mine on 16 October 1944.
TA40:. She was repaired and recommissioned and on 17 February 1945, when off Trieste was severely damaged in an air attack in February and scuttled on 4 May 1945.
TA41:. Damaged by bombs at Trieste and was not repaired. She was wrecked in May.
TA42:. Sunk at Venice to air attack on 23 January 1945.
TA43: Former Yugoslav destroyer Beograd, which was captured by the Italians in 1941 and renamed Sibenico served in the Adriatic and scuttled in Trieste 1 May 1945.
TA44:. Captured at Fiume, served in Adriatic. Sunk in an air raid on Trieste 17 February 1945.
TA45:. Enlisted into German service on the 8 September 1944, but it was fully equipped only on 23 November 1944. TA45 sailed to her last mission on 10 April 1945 together with TA40. Her duty was to escort and protect the tank carriers in the Velebit channels, 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. The torpedo boat TA45 was destroyed by the British motor torpedo boats which waited in the ambush near the cape Glavina on the isle of Krk.
TA46. Sunk in an incomplete state at Fiume on 20 February 1945.
TA47. Damaged on the slipway and never launched. Balestra, still on the slip, survived the war. Seized by Yugoslavian forces and completed in 1949 as Ucka. She stayed in service until 1963.
TA48:. Sunk by bombing, 20 February 1945.
TA49:. Destroyed in air raid at La Spezia, 4 November 1944.
