 Sister ship T35 in US service, August 1945
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| History | |
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 Nazi Germany | |
| Name | T28 |
| Ordered | 10 November 1939 |
| Builder | Schichau, Elbing, East Prussia |
| Yard number | 1487 |
| Laid down | 24 September 1941 |
| Launched | 8 October 1942 |
| Completed | 19 June 1943 |
| Fate | Transferred to France as war reparations, 1946 |
 France | |
| Name | Le Lorrain |
| Namesake | Person from Lorraine |
| Acquired | 4 February 1946 |
| Recommissioned | December 1949 |
| Out of service | 9 June 1954 |
| Renamed | 4 February 1946 |
| Stricken | 31 October 1955 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, after 31 October 1955 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type | Type 39 torpedo boat |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 102.5 m (336 ft 3 in) o/a |
| Beam | 10 m (32 ft 10 in) |
| Draft | 3.22 m (10 ft 7 in) |
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| Speed | 33.5 knots (62.0 km/h; 38.6 mph) |
| Range | 2,400 nmi (4,400 km; 2,800 mi) at 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
| Complement | 206 |
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The German torpedo boat T28 was one of fifteen Type 39 torpedo boats built for the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) during World War II. Completed in mid-1943, the ship was transferred to France in January 1944 and slightly damaged by British aircraft en route. She attacked Allied ships during the Invasion of Normandy in June 1944 and returned to Germany the following month. T28 was assigned to support German operations in the Baltic Sea. She escorted convoys and larger warships bombarding Soviet troops as well as bombarding them herself. In May T28 helped to evacuate troops and refugees from advancing Soviet forces. The ship was allocated to Great Britain after the war, but she was transferred to France in 1946. The French Navy renamed her Le Lorrain and recommissioned her in 1949. After serving with different units of the Mediterranean Squadron, she was condemned in 1955 and subsequently sold for scrap.