E-boat
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E-boat was the Western Allies' designation for the fast attack craft (German: Schnellboot, or S-Boot, meaning "fast boat"; plural Schnellboote) of the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany during World War II; E-boat could refer to a patrol craft from an armed motorboat to a large Torpedoboot. The name of E-boats was a British designation using the letter E for Enemy.
Key facts
- Ship.infobox_caption
- E-boat
- Ship/image.image
- German E-Boat S 204 surrenders at Felixstowe on 13 May 1945.jpg
- Ship/image.image_caption
- An E-boat flying the white flag, after surrender at the coastal forces base HMS Beehive, Felixstowe, May 1945
- Ship/class overview.name
- E-boat (German: S-boot)
- Ship/class overview.builders
- Lürssen, Vegesack Schlichting-Werft, Travemünde Galați shipyard and Constanța Shipyard, Romania (~20 boats re-assembled)
- Ship/class overview.operators
- Spanish Civil War (Nationalist) World War II Post-War
- Ship/class overview.class_after
- Jaguar class (post-war)
- Ship/class overview.total_ships_completed
- S-1: 1 unit (Schnellboot 1930) S-2: 4 units (Schnellboot 1931) S-7: 7 units (Schnellboot 1933) S-14: 4 units (Schnellboot 1934) S-18: 8 units (Schnellboot 1937) S-26: 4 units S-30: 16 units (Schnellboot 1939) S-38: 58 units (Schnellboot 1939/40) S-38b: S-100: 81 units S-151: 8 units
- Ship/class overview.total_ships_canceled
- 259
- Ship/class overview.total_ships_preserved
- 1
- Ship/characteristics.header_caption
- (S30-class)
- Ship/characteristics.class
- Fast attack craft
- Ship/characteristics.displacement
- 100 tonnes (full load); 92.5 tonnes (standard)
- Ship/characteristics.propulsion
- 3 × Daimler Benz MB 502 marine diesel engines
- Ship/characteristics.range
- at
- Ship/characteristics.complement
- 24 normal (maximum 30)
- Ship/characteristics.armament
- 2 × torpedo tubes (4 torpedoes) 3 × 20 mm C/30 cannon (1x twin, 1x single) 1 × 37 mm Flak 42 cannon
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- German E-Boat S 204 surrenders at Felixstowe on 13 May 1945.jpg
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43 sectionsContents
- History
- Development
- Layout
- Personnel
- Operations with the Kriegsmarine
- Operations in the Black Sea
- Yugoslav Navy
- Italian MS boat
- Spanish Navy
- China
- Romanian Navy
- Post-war service
- Royal Navy
- Operation Jungle
- Royal Danish Navy
- Royal Norwegian Navy
- Operators
- Survivor
- Variants and vessels
- ''S1''
- ''S2'' class
- ''S6''
- ''S7'' class
- ''S14'' class
- ''S18'' class
- 1938 orders
- ''S26'' class
- ''S30'' class
- 1939 orders
- 1940 orders
- 1941 orders
- 1942 orders
- ''S151'' class
- 1943 orders
- ''S501'' class
- ''S601'' class
- ''S700'' class
- KS-boats (''Kleinst Schnellboote''), originally KM-series (''Küstenminenleger'')
- LS-boats (''Leichte Schnellboote'')
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
E-boat was the Western Allies' designation for the fast attack craft (German: Schnellboot, or S-Boot, meaning "fast boat"; plural Schnellboote) of the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany during World War II; E-boat could refer to a patrol craft from an armed motorboat to a large Torpedoboot. The name of E-boats was a British designation using the letter E for Enemy.
The main wartime production boats, from S26 onwards (but often designated the S100 class), were very seaworthy, heavily armed and capable of sustaining , briefly accelerating to . These were armed with torpedoes and Flak guns; commonly one 37 mm at the stern, one 20 mm at the bow with a twin mount amidships, plus machine guns. Armament varied and some S26 class boats substituted a 40mm Bofors or, less commonly, a 20mm flakvierling (quadruple mount) for the aft 37mm cannon.