torpedo boat). 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. (ex-Daga, Italian Ariete-class torpedo boat). 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. : (ex-Pugnale, Italian Ariete-class torpedo boat). 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. : (ex-Lancia, Italian Ariete-class torpedo boat). Damaged by bombs at Trieste and was not repaired. She was wrecked in May. : (ex-Alabarda, Italian Ariete-class torpedo boat). Sunk at Venice to air attack on 23 January 1945. : 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. : (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-Fionda, Italian Ariete-class torpedo boat). Sunk in an incomplete state at Fiume on 20 February 1945. : (ex-Balestra, Italian Ariete-class torpedo boat). 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. : (ex-T3, former Yugoslav torpedo boat in Italian service). Sunk by bombing, 20 February 1945. : (ex-Lira, Italian ). Destroyed in air raid at La Spezia, 4 November 1944. Notes References External links TA boats on German