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vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Italian_MS_boat"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.4</span> <span>Italian MS boat</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Italian_MS_boat-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Service_in_the_Spanish_Navy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Service_in_the_Spanish_Navy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.5</span> <span>Service in the Spanish Navy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Service_in_the_Spanish_Navy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Service_in_China" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Service_in_China"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.6</span> <span>Service in China</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Service_in_China-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Service_in_the_Romanian_Navy" 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class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#S7_class"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4</span> <span><i>S7</i> class</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-S7_class-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-S14_class" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#S14_class"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.5</span> <span><i>S14</i> class</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-S14_class-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-S18_class" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#S18_class"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.6</span> <span><i>S18</i> class</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-S18_class-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1938_Orders" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1938_Orders"> <div 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style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Class overview</th></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Name</td><td><i>E-boat</i> (German: <i>S-boot</i>)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Builders</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/L%C3%BCrssen" title="Lürssen">Lürssen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vegesack" class="mw-redirect" title="Vegesack">Vegesack</a></li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">Schlichting-Werft, <a href="/wiki/Travem%C3%BCnde" title="Travemünde">Travemünde</a></li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Gala%C8%9Bi_shipyard" title="Galați shipyard">Galați shipyard</a> and <a href="/wiki/Constan%C8%9Ba_Shipyard" title="Constanța Shipyard">Constanța Shipyard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a> (~20 boats re-assembled)</li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Operators</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">Spanish Civil War</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Spain_%281938%E2%80%931945%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain_%281938%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Spain_%281938%E2%80%931945%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Spain_%281938%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Spain_%281938%E2%80%931945%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Spain_%281938%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Spanish_Navy" 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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Spain_%281938%E2%80%931945%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Spain_%281938%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Spanish_Navy" title="Spanish Navy">Spanish Navy</a></li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Succeeded by</td><td><a href="/wiki/Jaguar-class_fast_attack_craft" title="Jaguar-class fast attack craft"><i>Jaguar</i> class (post-war)</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Completed</td><td>S-1: 1 unit (Schnellboot 1930) <p>S-2: 4 units (Schnellboot 1931) </p><p>S-7: 7 units (Schnellboot 1933) </p><p>S-14: 4 units (Schnellboot 1934) </p><p>S-18: 8 units (Schnellboot 1937) </p><p>S-26: 4 units </p><p>S-30: 16 units (Schnellboot 1939) </p><p>S-38: 58 units (Schnellboot 1939/40) </p><p>S-38b: S-100: 81 units </p> S-151: 8 units</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Cancelled</td><td>259</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Preserved</td><td>1</td></tr> </tbody></table> <p><b>E-boat</b> was the <a href="/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II" title="Allies of World War II">Western Allies</a>' designation for the <a href="/wiki/Fast_attack_craft" title="Fast attack craft">fast attack craft</a> (German: <i><b>Schnellboot</b></i>, or <i>S-Boot</i>, meaning "fast boat"; plural <i>Schnellboote</i>) of the <a href="/wiki/Kriegsmarine" title="Kriegsmarine">Kriegsmarine</a> during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>; <i>E-boat</i> could refer to a patrol craft from an armed motorboat to a large <i>Torpedoboot.</i><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMargaritis2019365_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMargaritis2019365-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The name of E-boats was a British designation using the letter <i>E</i> for <i>Enemy</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The main wartime production boats, from <i>S26</i> onwards (but often designated the <i>S100</i> class), were very seaworthy,<sup id="cite_ref-pt-boat.com_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pt-boat.com-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> heavily armed and capable of sustaining 43.5 <a href="/wiki/Knot_(unit)" title="Knot (unit)">knots</a> (80.6 km/h; 50.1 mph), briefly accelerating to 48 knots (89 km/h; 55 mph).<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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 <i>S26</i> class boats substituted a <a href="/wiki/Bofors_40_mm_L/60_gun" title="Bofors 40 mm L/60 gun">40mm Bofors</a> or, less commonly, a <a href="/wiki/2_cm_Flak_30,_Flak_38_and_Flakvierling_38#2_cm_Flakvierling_38" title="2 cm Flak 30, Flak 38 and Flakvierling 38">20mm <i>flakvierling</i></a> (quadruple mount) for the aft 37mm cannon.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMargaritis2019365_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMargaritis2019365-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i>S26</i> class boats - which provided the bulk of the wartime deliveries - were 34.94 m (114 ft 8 in) long and 5.38 m (17 ft 8 in) in <a href="/wiki/Beam_(nautical)" title="Beam (nautical)">beam</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-pt-boat.com_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pt-boat.com-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their <a href="/wiki/Diesel_engine" title="Diesel engine">diesel engines</a> provided a range of 700 to 750 <a href="/wiki/Nautical_mile" title="Nautical mile">nmi</a> (810–860 mi; 1,300–1,390 km), substantially greater than the <a href="/wiki/Gasoline" title="Gasoline">gasoline</a>-fueled American <a href="/wiki/PT_boat" title="PT boat">PT boats</a> and British <a href="/wiki/Motor_torpedo_boat" title="Motor torpedo boat">motor torpedo boats</a> (MTBs).<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As a result of early war experience of combat against the fast and powerful S-boats, the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> created its <a href="/wiki/Motor_gunboat" title="Motor gunboat">MGB</a> force and later developed better-matched MTBs, using the <a href="/wiki/Fairmile_D_motor_torpedo_boat" title="Fairmile D motor torpedo boat">Fairmile 'D'</a> hull design. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Development">Development</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Development"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This design was chosen because the theatre of operations of such boats was expected to be the <a href="/wiki/North_Sea" title="North Sea">North Sea</a>, <a href="/wiki/English_Channel" title="English Channel">English Channel</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Western_Approaches" title="Western Approaches">Western Approaches</a>. The requirement for good performance in rough seas dictated the use of a round-bottomed displacement hull rather than the flat-bottomed planing hull that was more usual for small, high-speed boats. The shipbuilding company <a href="/wiki/L%C3%BCrssen" title="Lürssen">Lürssen</a> at <a href="/wiki/Vegesack" class="mw-redirect" title="Vegesack">Vegesack</a>, Bremen, overcame many of the disadvantages of such a hull and, with the private <a href="/wiki/Motor_yacht" class="mw-redirect" title="Motor yacht">motor yacht</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Oheka_II" title="Oheka II">Oheka II</a></i> in 1926, produced a craft that was fast, strong and seaworthy. It was also very light, being constructed of wooden planking over alloy frames. This attracted the interest of the <i><a href="/wiki/Reichsmarine" title="Reichsmarine">Reichsmarine</a></i>, which in November 1929 ordered a similar boat but fitted with two torpedo tubes. This became the <i>S1</i>, and was the basis for all subsequent E-boats.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>After experimenting with the <i>S1</i>, the Germans made several improvements to the design. Small rudders added on either side of the main rudder could be angled outboard to 30 degrees, creating at high speed what is known as the <a href="/wiki/L%C3%BCrssen_Effect" class="mw-redirect" title="Lürssen Effect">Lürssen Effect</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This drew in an "air pocket slightly behind the three propellers, increasing their efficiency, reducing the stern wave and keeping the boat at a nearly horizontal attitude".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was an important innovation as the horizontal attitude lifted the stern, allowing even greater speed, and the reduced stern wave made E-boats harder to see, especially at night.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The rounded wood planking hull helped reduce weight, and flattened at the stern area, the aft section area was reduced at high speeds, it allowed more hydrodynamic lift.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Layout">Layout</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Layout"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The internal layout of the E-boat remained the same for all types. Its length was generally divided by eight transverse <a href="/wiki/Bulkhead_(partition)" title="Bulkhead (partition)">bulkheads</a> (made of 4mm steel below the waterline and slightly thinner light metal alloy above) into nine watertight compartments.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From bow to stern, these were: </p> <ol><li>Containing a trimming tank, the anchor chain storage locker, forward "head" (WC) and crew washroom;</li> <li>the accommodation for senior ratings (six bunks, including one in a separate curtained-off compartment for the coxswain);</li> <li>comprising the captain's cabin on the starboard side, and the radio room on the port side;</li> <li>the two forward fuel tanks (capacity 2 x 3,000 litres), one on either side of a centreline walkway, located directly below the bridge;</li> <li>the forward engineroom, housing the two wing engines, still with a central walkway between them;</li> <li>the second engineroom held the engine driving the central shaft, with a walkway on each side, flanked next to the hull by auxiliary machinery;</li> <li>the two largest of the fuel tanks (each of capacity 3,150 litres), again on either side of a central walkway, with a third (smaller) tank of 1,490 litres below the deck;</li> <li>the junior ratings' accommodation, with bunks for fourteen men, plus the galley and the stern "head"; the boat's magazine was also in this compartment;</li> <li>the two aft fuel tanks (capacity 2 x 2,000 litres) and rudder gear.</li></ol> <p>Note that the earliest (shorter) boats lacked the first transverse bulkhead, and thus the senior ratings' accommodation was included in the first watertight compartment. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Personnel">Personnel</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Personnel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The earliest six boats had a crew of 12 men, but by the time of the <i>S7</i> and <i>S14</i> types (<i>S7</i> to <i>S25</i>) the manning had increased to 18 men. The <i>S26</i> class required a complement of between 21 and 24 men, and this remained generally constant for all subsequent boats (except the ex-Italian and KS and LS boats). This comprised a commanding officer (usually an <i>Oberleutnant zur See</i>), a Chief Boatswain (<i>Oberbootsmann</i>), a Helmsman (<i>Matrosen-Gefreiter</i>), about six seamen including those operating semaphore and engine telegraph posts (<i>Matrosen</i>), a Chief Engineer (<i>Obermaschinist</i>), three engineer NCOs (<i>Maschinenmaaten</i>), six engine-room ratings (usually <i>Heizer</i>), two radio operators (<i>Funkgefreiter</i> or <i>Funkgast</i>) for radio communications including decoding, and a torpedo mechanic (<i>Torpedomechanikergefreiter</i>) who doubled as the boat's cook. </p><p>Crew members could earn an award particular to their work — the <i><a href="/wiki/Fast_Attack_Craft_War_Badge" title="Fast Attack Craft War Badge">Schnellbootkriegsabzeichen</a></i> — denoted by a badge depicting an E-boat passing through a wreath. The criteria were good conduct, distinction in action, and participating in at least twelve enemy actions. It was also awarded for particularly successful missions, displays of leadership or being killed in action. It could be awarded under special circumstances, such as when another decoration was not suitable.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Operations_with_the_Kriegsmarine">Operations with the Kriegsmarine</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Operations with the Kriegsmarine"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>E-boats were primarily used to patrol the <a href="/wiki/Baltic_Sea" title="Baltic Sea">Baltic Sea</a> and the English Channel in order to intercept shipping heading for the English ports in the south and east. As such, they were up against <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> and Commonwealth, e.g., <a href="/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Navy" title="Royal Canadian Navy">Royal Canadian Navy</a> contingents leading up to <a href="/wiki/D-Day" class="mw-redirect" title="D-Day">D-Day</a>, <a href="/wiki/Motor_gunboat" title="Motor gunboat">motor gunboats</a> (MGBs), <a href="/wiki/Motor_torpedo_boat" title="Motor torpedo boat">motor torpedo boats</a> (MTBs), <a href="/wiki/Motor_launch_(naval)" title="Motor launch (naval)">motor launches</a>, <a href="/wiki/Captain_class_frigate" class="mw-redirect" title="Captain class frigate">frigates</a> and <a href="/wiki/Destroyer" title="Destroyer">destroyers</a>. They were also transferred in small numbers to the Mediterranean, and the Black Sea by river and land transport. Some small E-boats were built as boats for carrying by auxiliary cruisers.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>E-boats were organisationally under the command of the <i>Seekriegsleitung</i> or <b>SKL</b> (the naval warfare command, responsible for the planning, execution and direction of naval warfare), and were administratively organised into flotillas, each originally comprising 8 boats. Consequently most orders for new construction were placed in batches of eight boats, or of multiple of eight. The first half-flotilla (<i>1st Schnellbootshalbflotille</i>) was formed in July 1932, but was reorganised as <i>1st Schnellbootsflotille</i> in June 1935. A second flotilla was established in August 1938, and a third in 1940. Eventually there were fourteen operational flotillas, numbered 1st to 11th plus 21st, 22nd and 24th, together with three training flotillas (<i>Schnellbootsschulflotille</i>). Each flotilla required the backup of a depot ship; initially this was provided by the converted steamer <i>Nordsea</i>, but from 1934 a series of purpose-built tenders were commissioned - the <i>Tsingtau</i> in 1934, followed by the <i>Tanga</i> (in 1939), <i>Carl Peters</i> and <i>Adolf Lüderitz</i> in 1940, and finally the <i>Herman von Wissmamm</i> and <i>Gustav Nachtigal</i>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SCHNELLBOOTE_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/SCHNELLBOOTE_1.jpg/220px-SCHNELLBOOTE_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="136" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/SCHNELLBOOTE_1.jpg/330px-SCHNELLBOOTE_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/SCHNELLBOOTE_1.jpg/440px-SCHNELLBOOTE_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2493" data-file-height="1543" /></a><figcaption>Schnellboot <i>S1</i></figcaption></figure> <p>E-boats of the <a href="/wiki/Surface_flotillas_of_the_Kriegsmarine#Attack_boat_flotillas" title="Surface flotillas of the Kriegsmarine">6th & 9th flotillas</a> from <a href="/wiki/Cherbourg_Naval_Base" title="Cherbourg Naval Base">Cherbourg</a> attacked <a href="/wiki/Exercise_Tiger" title="Exercise Tiger">Exercise Tiger</a> on 28 April 1944, causing about 749 American Army and Navy casualties.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The E-boats of the <a href="/wiki/Surface_flotillas_of_the_Kriegsmarine#Attack_boat_flotillas" title="Surface flotillas of the Kriegsmarine">9th flotilla</a> were the first naval units to respond to the invasion fleet of <a href="/wiki/Operation_Overlord" title="Operation Overlord">Operation Overlord</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-V.E56_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-V.E56-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They left Cherbourg harbour at 5 a.m. on 6 June 1944.<sup id="cite_ref-V.E56_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-V.E56-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On finding themselves confronted by the entire invasion fleet, they fired their torpedoes at maximum range and returned to Cherbourg.<sup id="cite_ref-V.E56_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-V.E56-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During World War II, E-boats claimed 101 merchant ships totalling 214,728 tons.<sup id="cite_ref-Connelly&Krakow,_2003._p.54_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Connelly&Krakow,_2003._p.54-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Additional claims include 12 destroyers, 11 minesweepers, eight landing ships, six MTBs, one torpedo boat, one minelayer, one submarine, and a number of smaller craft such as fishing boats. They also damaged two cruisers, five destroyers, three landing ships, one repair ship, one naval tug, and numerous other merchant vessels. <a href="/wiki/Sea_mine" class="mw-redirect" title="Sea mine">Sea mines</a> laid by the E-boats sank 37 merchant ships totalling 148,535 tons, a destroyer, two minesweepers, and four landing ships.<sup id="cite_ref-Connelly&Krakow,_2003._p.54_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Connelly&Krakow,_2003._p.54-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>E-boat crews were awarded 23 <a href="/wiki/Knight%27s_Cross_of_the_Iron_Cross" title="Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross">Knight's Cross of the Iron Crosses</a> and 112 <a href="/wiki/German_Cross" title="German Cross">German Crosses</a> in Gold.<sup id="cite_ref-Connelly&Krakow,_2003._p.54_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Connelly&Krakow,_2003._p.54-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Operations_in_the_Black_Sea">Operations in the Black Sea</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Operations in the Black Sea"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>To boost Axis naval strength in the Black Sea, the <a href="/wiki/Oberkommando_der_Wehrmacht" title="Oberkommando der Wehrmacht">OKW</a> ordered to the region the transfer of six E-boats of the 1st S-flotilla, the last to be released from action in the <a href="/wiki/Baltic_Sea" title="Baltic Sea">Baltic Sea</a> before refit. The Romanian port of <a href="/wiki/Constan%C8%9Ba" title="Constanța">Constanța</a>, in the Black Sea, was chosen as the S-flotilla's headquarters. Transporting the six boats overland from Germany to Romania was an impressive logistical feat. The superstructure and all weapons were removed, leaving only the hull. After a long road journey of 60 hours, the boats arrived at <a href="/wiki/Ingolstadt" title="Ingolstadt">Ingolstadt</a>, where they were transferred back to water and towed towards <a href="/wiki/Linz" title="Linz">Linz</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Upon reaching the Austrian city, the superstructure was rebuilt, then the journey continued down the Danube to <a href="/wiki/Gala%C8%9Bi" title="Galați">Galați</a>, where the main engines were installed. The E-boats then continued on their own power towards <a href="/wiki/Constan%C8%9Ba" title="Constanța">Constanța</a>, where refitting was completed. </p><p>The first two boats, <i>S26</i> and <i>S28</i>, arrived in Constanța on 24 May 1942, the second pair, <i>S72 and S102</i> on 3 June, and the final pair, <i>S27</i> and <i>S40</i> 10 days later.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the sinking of <i>S27</i> by a malfunctioning torpedo, four more reserve boats, <i>S47</i>, <i>S49</i>, <i>S51</i> and <i>S-52</i> were dispatched to the <a href="/wiki/Black_Sea" title="Black Sea">Black Sea</a>, in order to replace boats undergoing maintenance.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>S28</i>, <i>S72</i> and <i>S102</i> were soon relegated to the <a href="/wiki/Constan%C8%9Ba_Shipyard" title="Constanța Shipyard">Constanța Shipyard</a> for engine replacement, leaving only <i>S26</i> and the newly commissioned <i>S49</i> operational.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 1 January 1944, the 1st S-flotilla numbered six operational boats: <i>S26</i>, <i>S42</i>, <i>S47</i>, <i>S49</i>, <i>S52</i> and <i>S79</i>, while <i>S28</i>, <i>S40</i>, <i>S45</i> and <i>S51</i> were all out of commission, undergoing repair in Constanța. Three more boats were shipped down the Danube and were being reconstructed at Constanța.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 1 June 1944, 8 boats were operational in Constanța: <i>S28</i>, <i>S40</i>, <i>S47</i>, <i>S49</i>, <i>S72</i>, <i>S131</i>, <i>S148</i> and <i>S149</i>. The boats were however penned in harbor, due to fuel shortage. During July, <i>S26</i>, <i>S28</i>, <i>S40</i> and <i>S42</i> were transferred to <a href="/wiki/Sulina" title="Sulina">Sulina</a> at the mouth of the Danube, where <i>S42</i> was fitted with a new propeller. They were joined by <i>S72</i> in early August, the rest of the boats remaining in Constanța. On 19 August, <i>S26</i>, <i>S40</i> and <i>S72</i> were destroyed in port by a Soviet air attack. On 22 August <i>S148</i> hit a mine and sank near Sulina, and on the following day, <i>S42</i>, <i>S52</i> and <i>S131</i> were destroyed in Constanța by a Soviet air attack.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._261_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._261-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> What remained of the S-flotilla was disbanded after Romania switched sides on the same day.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._262_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._262-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Yugoslav_Navy">Yugoslav Navy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Yugoslav Navy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Eight E-boats were built by Lürssen, Vegesack for the Yugoslav Navy from 1936 to 1939. These were named <i>Orjen</i>, <i>Durmitor</i>, <i>Suvobor</i>, <i>Kajmakcalan</i>, <i>Velebit</i>, <i>Dinaira</i>, <i>Rudnik</i> and <i>Triglav</i>. Each measured 28.00 (overall)/27.70 (waterline) x 4.46 x 1.51 m (91 ft 10in/90 ft 10in x 14 ft 4in x 4 ft 11in) and 51 tonnes standard (61.7 tonnes full load). Three Daimler-Benz BF2 petrol engines of 1,100 hp each = 3,300 hp = 33 kts, while they carried 5.8 tonnes of petrrol to give them a radius of 265 nmiles @ 33 knots. Each carried two 550mm torpedo tubes, a 40mm gun and 16 men. <i>Kajmakcalan</i> and <i>Durmitor</i> escaped to Alexandria in April 1941 to join the Allies; the other six fell into Italian hands and became <i>Ms41</i> to <i>Ms46</i>, four of them eventually captured by the Germans and refitted with standard 533 mm torpedoes (see below under "<i>S2 </i> class"). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Italian_MS_boat">Italian MS boat</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Italian MS boat"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/CRDA_60_t_motor_torpedo_boat" title="CRDA 60 t motor torpedo boat">CRDA 60 t motor torpedo boat</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:MS_472.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/MS_472.jpg/220px-MS_472.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="130" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/MS_472.jpg/330px-MS_472.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/MS_472.jpg/440px-MS_472.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1588" data-file-height="936" /></a><figcaption>Italian MS 472, post-war configuration</figcaption></figure> <p>The poor seaworthiness of the Italian-designed <a href="/wiki/MAS_(ship)" class="mw-redirect" title="MAS (ship)">MAS</a> boats of World War I and early World War II led its navy to build its own version of E-boats, the CRDA 60 t type, classed MS (<i>Motosilurante</i>). The prototype was designed on the pattern of the six German-built E-boats captured from the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Yugoslav_Navy" title="Royal Yugoslav Navy">Yugoslav Navy</a> in 1941. Two of them sank the British light cruiser <a href="/wiki/HMS_Manchester_(15)" title="HMS Manchester (15)">HMS <i>Manchester</i></a> in August 1942, the largest warship to be sunk by fast torpedo craft in the Second World War.<sup id="cite_ref-regiamarina_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-regiamarina-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the war these boats served with the <a href="/wiki/Italian_Navy" title="Italian Navy">Italian Navy</a>, some well into the 1970s.<sup id="cite_ref-ANMI_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ANMI-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Service_in_the_Spanish_Navy">Service in the Spanish Navy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Service in the Spanish Navy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <i>Kriegsmarine</i> supplied the Spanish <a href="/wiki/Francoist_Spain" title="Francoist Spain">Francoist</a> Navy with six E-boats (<i>S1</i> to <i>S6</i>) in December 1936 during the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War" title="Spanish Civil War">Spanish Civil War</a>, and sold six more (<i>S73</i>, <i>S78</i>, <i>S124</i>, <i>S125</i>, <i>S126</i> and <i>S134</i>) to them in 1943 during the Second World War. Another six were built in Spain with some assistance from Lürssen. A motor boat of the early series, either the <i>Falange</i> or the <i>Requeté</i>, laid two mines off <a href="/wiki/Almer%C3%ADa" title="Almería">Almería</a> that crippled the British destroyer <a href="/wiki/HMS_Hunter_(H35)" title="HMS Hunter (H35)">HMS <i>Hunter</i></a> on 13 May 1937. The German-built boats were discarded in the 1960s, while some of the Spanish-built ones served until the early 1970s.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Service_in_China">Service in China</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Service in China"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/E-boat" title="Special:EditPage/E-boat">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">February 2021</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:German_motor-torpedo_boat_S13_passing_under_a_bridge_in_the_1930s_(NH_91615).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/German_motor-torpedo_boat_S13_passing_under_a_bridge_in_the_1930s_%28NH_91615%29.jpg/220px-German_motor-torpedo_boat_S13_passing_under_a_bridge_in_the_1930s_%28NH_91615%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="158" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/German_motor-torpedo_boat_S13_passing_under_a_bridge_in_the_1930s_%28NH_91615%29.jpg/330px-German_motor-torpedo_boat_S13_passing_under_a_bridge_in_the_1930s_%28NH_91615%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/German_motor-torpedo_boat_S13_passing_under_a_bridge_in_the_1930s_%28NH_91615%29.jpg/440px-German_motor-torpedo_boat_S13_passing_under_a_bridge_in_the_1930s_%28NH_91615%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4738" data-file-height="3410" /></a><figcaption>This is one of the <i>S-7</i>-class boats, <i>S-13</i>. The Chinese Navy operated three boats of this class.</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Nationalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese Nationalist">Chinese Nationalist</a> Navy had three <i>S7</i>-class boats during the <a href="/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War" title="Second Sino-Japanese War">Second Sino-Japanese War</a>. </p> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yue_Fei_(torpedo_boat_class)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yue Fei (torpedo boat class) (page does not exist)"><i>Yue-22</i></a> (<i>岳-22</i>)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yue-253&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yue-253 (page does not exist)">Yue-253</a></i> (<i>岳-253</i>)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yue-371&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yue-371 (page does not exist)">Yue-371</a></i> (<i>岳-371</i>)</li></ul> <p><i>Yue-22</i> was destroyed by Japanese planes, <i>Yue-371</i> was sunk by its sailors to avoid being captured by the Japanese soldiers and <i>Yue-253</i> was captured by the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army" title="People's Liberation Army">People's Liberation Army</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Chinese_civil_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese civil war">Chinese Civil War</a>. <i>Yue-253</i> was renamed "Hoiking" (海鯨), meaning "Seawhale" in <a href="/wiki/Chinese_language" title="Chinese language">Chinese</a>. The <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army_Navy" title="People's Liberation Army Navy">People's Liberation Army Navy</a> used it as a patrol boat until 1963. </p><p>The Chinese Nationalist government also ordered eight E-boats and a <a href="/wiki/Torpedo_boat_tender" title="Torpedo boat tender">tender</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chinese_torpedo_boat_tender_Qi_Jiguang" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese torpedo boat tender Qi Jiguang"><i>Qi Jiguang</i></a> (戚繼光). These were all taken over while under construction by the <i><a href="/wiki/Kriegsmarine" title="Kriegsmarine">Kriegsmarine</a></i> in 1939. The E-boats had MB502 diesels and were shorter (by 2.18m) than the standard <i>S26</i> design of boats. They were re-numbered as <i>S30</i> to <i>S37</i>, while the <i>Qi Jiguang</i> was renamed <i><a href="/wiki/German_fleet_tender_Tanga" title="German fleet tender Tanga">Tanga</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Service_in_the_Romanian_Navy">Service in the Romanian Navy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Service in the Romanian Navy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Germany sold four E-boats to Romania on 14 August 1944.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These vessels displaced 65 tons, had a top speed of 30 knots generated by three Mercedes-Benz engines totalling 2,130 kW (2,850 hp) and were armed with two 500 mm (19.685 in) torpedo tubes. Each of the four boats had a crew of 25. They were numbered 10 to 13 (formerly <i>S151</i>, <i>S152</i>, <i>S153</i> and <i>S154</i>) and served in the Romanian Navy until at least 1954.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Post-war_service">Post-war service</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Post-war service"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Royal_Navy">Royal Navy</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Royal Navy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At the end of the war about 34 E-boats were surrendered to the British. Three boats, <i>S130</i> (renamed <i>P5230</i>), <i>S208</i> (<i>P5208</i>) and <i>S212</i> (<i>P5212</i>) were retained for trials.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Operation_Jungle">Operation Jungle</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Operation Jungle"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Operation_Jungle" title="Operation Jungle">Operation Jungle</a></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Gehlen_Organization" title="Gehlen Organization">Gehlen Organization</a>, an intelligence agency established by American occupation authorities in Germany in 1946 and manned by former members of the Wehrmacht's <i><a href="/wiki/Fremde_Heere_Ost" class="mw-redirect" title="Fremde Heere Ost">Fremde Heere Ost</a></i> (Foreign Armies East), used the Royal Navy's E-boats in order to infiltrate its agents into the <a href="/wiki/Baltic_states" title="Baltic states">Baltic states</a> and <a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Royal Navy Commander <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Courtney" title="Anthony Courtney">Anthony Courtney</a> was struck by the potential capabilities of former E-boat hulls, and <a href="/wiki/John_Harvey-Jones" title="John Harvey-Jones">John Harvey-Jones</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Naval_Intelligence_Division_(United_Kingdom)" title="Naval Intelligence Division (United Kingdom)">Naval Intelligence Division</a> was put in charge of the project. He discovered that the Royal Navy still had two E-boats, <i>P5230</i> and <i>P5208</i>, and had them sent to Portsmouth, where one of them, <i>P5230</i> (ex-<i>S130</i>), was modified to reduce its weight and increase its power with the installation of two <a href="/wiki/Napier_Deltic" title="Napier Deltic">Napier Deltic</a> engines of 1,900 kW (2,500 hp) each.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lieutenant-Commander <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hans-Helmut_Klose&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hans-Helmut Klose (page does not exist)">Hans-Helmut Klose</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Helmut_Klose" class="extiw" title="de:Hans-Helmut Klose">de</a>]</span> was assigned to command a German crew, recruited by the British <a href="/wiki/MI6" title="MI6">MI6</a> and funded by the American <a href="/wiki/Office_of_Policy_Coordination" title="Office of Policy Coordination">Office of Policy Coordination</a>. The missions were assigned the codename "<a href="/wiki/Operation_Jungle" title="Operation Jungle">Operation Jungle</a>". The boats carried out their missions under the cover of the <a href="/wiki/Control_Commission_for_Germany_%E2%80%93_British_Element" class="mw-redirect" title="Control Commission for Germany – British Element">British Control Commission's</a> Fishery Protection Service, which was responsible for preventing Soviet navy vessels from interfering with German fishing boats and for destroying stray mines. The home port of the boats was <a href="/wiki/Kiel" title="Kiel">Kiel</a>, and operated under the supervision of Harvey-Jones. Manned by Klose and his crew, they usually departed for the island of <a href="/wiki/Bornholm" title="Bornholm">Bornholm</a> waving the <a href="/wiki/White_Ensign" title="White Ensign">White Ensign</a>, where they would hoist the Swedish flag for a dash to <a href="/wiki/Gotland" title="Gotland">Gotland</a>, and there they would wait for orders from Hamburg. The first mission consisted in the landing of Lithuanian agents at <a href="/wiki/Palanga" title="Palanga">Palanga</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lithuania" title="Lithuania">Lithuania</a>, in May 1949,<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the last one took place in April 1955 in <a href="/wiki/Saaremaa" title="Saaremaa">Saaremaa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Estonia" title="Estonia">Estonia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ad_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ad-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the last two years of the operation, three new German-built motorboats replaced the old E-boats.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Klose was later assigned the command of a patrol boat in the <i><a href="/wiki/Bundesmarine" class="mw-redirect" title="Bundesmarine">Bundesmarine</a></i> and became commander-in-chief of the fleet before his retirement in 1978.<sup id="cite_ref-ad_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ad-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Royal_Danish_Navy">Royal Danish Navy</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Royal Danish Navy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1947, the Danish navy bought twelve former Kriegsmarine boats. These were further augmented in 1951 by six units bought from the Royal Norwegian Navy. The last unit, the P568 <i>Viben</i>, was retired in 1965.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Royal_Norwegian_Navy">Royal Norwegian Navy</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Royal Norwegian Navy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After World War II, the Norwegian Navy received a number of former Kriegsmarine boats. Six boats were transferred to Denmark in 1951.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. 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data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Survivor">Survivor</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Survivor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There is just one surviving E-boat, identified as <i>S130</i>. It was built as hull No. 1030 at the Schlichting boatyard in <a href="/wiki/Travem%C3%BCnde" title="Travemünde">Travemünde</a>. <i>S130</i> was commissioned on 21 October 1943 and took an active part in the war, participating in the <a href="/wiki/Exercise_Tiger" title="Exercise Tiger">Exercise Tiger</a> attack and attacks on the <a href="/wiki/D-Day" class="mw-redirect" title="D-Day">D-Day</a> invasion fleet. </p><p> According to Dutch military historian Maurice Laarman:</p><blockquote> <p>In 1945, <i>S130</i> was taken as a British war prize (FPB 5030) and put to use in covert operations. Under the guise of the "British Baltic Fishery Protection Service", the British Secret Intelligence Service MI-6 ferried spies and agents into Eastern Europe. Beginning in May 1949, MI-6 used <i>S208</i>, (Kommandant Hans-Helmut Klose) to insert agents into Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Poland. The operations were very successful and continued under a more permanent organisation based in Hamburg. In 1952, <i>S130</i> joined the operation and the mission was enlarged to include signal intelligence (SIGINT) equipment. In 1954/55, <i>S130</i> and <i>S208</i> were replaced by a new generation of German S-boote. </p> </blockquote> <p><i>S130</i> was returned to the newly formed Bundesmarine in March 1957, and operated under the number <i>UW 10</i>. Serving initially in the <i>Unterwasserwaffenschule</i> training sailors in underwater weaponry such as mines and torpedoes, she later became a test boat under the name EF 3.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>S130</i> was on display in <a href="/wiki/Wilhelmshaven" title="Wilhelmshaven">Wilhelmshaven</a>, Germany, having formerly been used as a houseboat.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p><i>S130</i> was purchased and towed from Wilhelmshaven to the Husbands Shipyard, Marchwood, <a href="/wiki/Southampton" title="Southampton">Southampton</a>, England in January 2003, under the auspices of the British Military Powerboat Trust. In 2004, <i>S130</i> was taken to the slipway at Hythe, where, under the supervision of the BMPT, she was prepared and then towed to Mashfords yard in <a href="/wiki/Cremyll" title="Cremyll">Cremyll</a>, Cornwall, England to await funding for restoration. In 2008, <i>S130</i>, having been purchased by the <a href="/wiki/The_Wheatcroft_Collection" title="The Wheatcroft Collection">Wheatcroft Collection</a>, was set up ashore at <a href="/wiki/Southdown,_Cornwall" title="Southdown, Cornwall">Southdown</a> in Cornwall to undergo restoration work involving Roving Commissions Ltd. In July 2020, <i>S130</i> was still awaiting restoration, with the intention that upon completion it would be a museum-ship at the Richmond dry docks in <a href="/wiki/Bideford" title="Bideford">Bideford, Devon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Boating_2020_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Boating_2020-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Variants_and_vessels">Variants and vessels</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Variants and vessels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <i>Schnellboot</i> design evolved over time.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first groups had a pair of torpedo tubes fitted on the foredeck, but from <i>S26</i> onwards the forecastle had been raised so that the torpedo tubes were built into the structure. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="S1"><i>S1</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: S1"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first post-WW1 torpedo boat was ordered in November 1929 to be built by <a href="/wiki/L%C3%BCrssen" title="Lürssen">Lürssen</a> at <a href="/wiki/Vegesack" class="mw-redirect" title="Vegesack">Vegesack</a>, near <a href="/wiki/Bremen" title="Bremen">Bremen</a>, in 1930 as their Yard No. 12120, using mahogany and light metal composite. Originally numbered as <i>UZ(S)16</i>, it was commissioned into the Reichmarine on 7 August 1930. It was renamed <i>W1</i> on 31 March 1931, and then as <i>S1</i> on 16 March 1932. It measured 26.8 x 4.2 x 1.06 metres (87 ft x 13 ft 9in x 3 ft 6in) and had a displacement of 39 tons standard (50 tons full load). Powered by three Daimler-Benz BF2 12-cylinder 900 hp petrol engines on three shafts, with a rating of 2,700 bhp, it had a sustained speed of 34.2 knots (maximum 39.8 knots). It carried two 500mm (19.685 inch) torpedo tubes and one 20mm flak gun. It had a complement of 12 (later 18) men. Along with the next five boats (<i>S2</i> to <i>S6</i>), it was stricken on 10 December 1936 and sold to Spain as <i>Badajoz</i> (renamed <i>LT15</i> in 1939). </p><p>The number <i>S1</i> was re-used in 1939. Five boats had been ordered by Bulgaria from Lürssen, Vegesack, of which the first four were delivered as <i>F1</i> to <i>F4</i>. The fifth boat was retained in Germany and given the number <i>S1</i>. These were petrol-engined boats, similar to the <i>S2</i> class built for the Kriegsmarine. Although commissioned in 1939, its petrol engines gave frequent problems, and on 10 September 1940 its stern was rammed (by <i>S13</i>) in Vlissingen, and was later removed from active service. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="S2_class"><i>S2</i> class</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: S2 class"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first production of the E-boat in 1931, a lengthened version of the prototype <i>S1</i>. The first two were ordered from Lürssen on 28 April 1931 and the other two on 16 July 1931. Each measured 27.95 x 4.2 x 1.06 metres (91 ft 8in x 13 ft 9in x 3 ft 6in) and had a displacement of 46.5 tons standard (58 tons full load). Powered by Daimler-Benz petrol engines on three shafts, with a rating of 3,300 bhp, they had a speed of 33.8 knots. Armament and men as in <i>S1</i>. They formed a "Half Flotilla" and were used for training crews for later E-boats; all were stricken on 10 December 1936 (along with <i>S1</i>) for transfer to Spain. </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"> <tbody><tr> <td>Number</td> <td>Builder</td> <td>Launched</td> <td>Commissioned</td> <td>Fate </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S2</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1 December 1931</td> <td>22 April 1932</td> <td>Sold to Spain 10 December 1936, renamed <i>Falange</i> (<i>LT13</i>) </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S3</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>10 December 1931</td> <td>27 May 1932</td> <td>Sold to Spain 10 December 1936, but never commissioned there </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S4</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>11 June 1932</td> <td>20 June 1932</td> <td>Sold to Spain 10 December 1936, renamed <i>Requete</i> (<i>LT11</i>) </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S5</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1932</td> <td>14 July 1932</td> <td>Sold to Spain 10 December 1936, renamed <i>Oviedo</i> (<i>LT12</i>) </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>The numbers <i>S2</i> to <i>S5</i> were re-used in 1943. Eight petrol-engined boats similar to the original <i>S2</i> class had been ordered from Lürssen, Vegesack, and completed in 1937-39 for that navy as <i>Orjen</i>, <i>Durmitor</i>, <i>Suvobor</i>, <i>Kajmakcalan</i>, <i>Velebit</i>, <i>Dinaira</i>, <i>Rudnik</i> and <i>Triglav</i>. When Italy occupied Yugoslavia in April 1941, two of them (<i>Durmitor</i> and <i>Kajmakcalan</i>) escaped to Alexandria and served with the Allied forces, while the other six were commissioned into the Italian Navy as <i>Ms41</i> to <i>Ms46</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Aldo_Fraccaroli_1968_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Aldo_Fraccaroli_1968-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In September 1943 <i>Ms41</i> (ex <i>Orjen</i>) at <a href="/wiki/Monfalcone" title="Monfalcone">Monfalcone</a> and <i>Ms45</i> (ex <i>Suvobor</i>) at <a href="/wiki/Cattolica" title="Cattolica">Cattolica</a> were scuttled, while the other four were captured by the Germans on 9 September and renamed <i>S2</i> (ex <i>Velebit</i>), <i>S3</i> (ex <i>Dinara</i>), <i>S4</i> (ex <i>Triglav</i>) and <i>S5</i> (ex <i>Rudnik</i>); all four were scuttled by the Germans at <a href="/wiki/Salonika" class="mw-redirect" title="Salonika">Salonika</a> in October 1944. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="S6"><i>S6</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: S6"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first diesel-powered boat was also ordered from Lürssen, Vegesack on 28 August 1932. Its dimensions and other details were the same as for <i>S7</i> to <i>S9</i>. It was stricken and sold to Spain on 10 December 1936 (together with the preceding petrol-engined boats) and renamed <i>Toledo</i> (renamed <i>LT14</i> in 1939 and stricken in 1942). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="S7_class"><i>S7</i> class</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: S7 class"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Built from 1933 onwards. Similar to <i>S6</i>, but with an improved hull form, these were the first operational diesel boats. The first three, ordered (together with <i>S6</i>) on 26 August 1932, were fitted with MAN L7 19/30 diesels on three shafts giving a speed of 36.5 knots and measured 75.8 tonnes standard (95 tonnes full load), while the last four - ordered on 20 July 1932 - were equipped with the more reliable Daimler-Benz MB502 diesels of 3,960 hp to produce 35 knots, and were 78 tonnes standard (92 tonens full load). They had a fuel capacity of 10.5 tonnes, giving them a radfius of 600 nmiles @ 30 knots. All measured 32.36 x 5.06 x 1.36 m (106 ft 2in x 16 ft 6in x 4 ft 6in) except that <i>S10</i> to <i>S13</i> had a draught of 1.42m (4 ft 8in). These carried the larger 533mm (21-inch) torpedoes rather than the 500mm of the petrol-driven boats; two torpedo tubes were mounted on the forecastle, and the boats also carried a single 20mm MgC/30 gun, with a crew of 18 (later 21) men. </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"> <tbody><tr> <td>Number</td> <td>Builder</td> <td>Launched</td> <td>Commissioned</td> <td>Fate </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S7</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>24 February 1934</td> <td>10 October 1934</td> <td>Transferred to UK in May 1945, scuttled in the North Sea 2 May 1946. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S8</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>23 January 1934</td> <td>6 September 1934</td> <td>Converted to fast submarine hunter on 11 September 1940, transferred to UK in 1945, but scuttled in the North Sea on 17 May 1945 </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S9</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>24 February 1934</td> <td>12 June 1935</td> <td>Converted to fast submarine hunter on 5 August 1940, <br />transferred to Norway in July 1945, sunk 18 January 1946 in the North Sea, </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S10</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>26 August 1934</td> <td>7 March 1935</td> <td>To USA in 1945; transferred to Norway in 1945, scrapped 1950 </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S11</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>24 October 1934</td> <td>3 August 1935</td> <td>Transferred to USSR on 5 November 1945 as <i>TK-1002</i>, scrapped in later 1940s. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S12</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>18 February 1935</td> <td>31 August 1935</td> <td>Transferred to Norway in July 1945, sunk 18 January 1946 in the North Sea </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S13</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>29 March 1935</td> <td>7 December 1935</td> <td>Transferred to Britain in May 1945, sold and scrapped. </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="S14_class"><i>S14</i> class</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: S14 class"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Improved <i>S7</i> type, ordered on 16 July 1934 (first two) and 5 November 1935 (last two) with new MAN L11 (11-cylinder) engines producing 6,150 hp, which proved unsatisfactory. Enlarged hull, measuring 34.62 x 5.26 x 1.67 m (113 ft 7in x 17 ft 3in x 5 ft 6in) and displacing 92.5 tonnes standard (105.4 tonnes full load). After <i>S17</i> was broken up, the surviving three boatrs were transferred to the Fast A/S Group in 1940. </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"> <tbody><tr> <td>Number</td> <td>Builder</td> <td>Launched</td> <td>Commissioned</td> <td>Fate </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S14</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>23 January 1936</td> <td>12 June 1936</td> <td>Converted to fast tug, but sunk in the Bristol Channel in 1944. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S15</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>15 February 1936</td> <td>27 February 1937</td> <td>Transferred to US Navy post-war, but given to Denmark in July 1847 as <i>T46</i> and broken up there. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S16</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>7 April 1937</td> <td>22 December 1937</td> <td>Transferred to USSR on 13 February 1946 as <i>TK-1003</i>, scrapped 1950 or later. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S17</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>29 July 1937</td> <td>18 March 1938</td> <td>Decommissioned 8 September 1939 following heavy storm damage on 4 September off <a href="/wiki/Heligoland" title="Heligoland">Heligoland</a>, and scrapped. </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="S18_class"><i>S18</i> class</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: S18 class"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Built from 1937 onwards. Two new boats were ordered on 21 December 1936 (<i>S18</i> and <i>S19</i>) and six more boats (<i>S20</i> to <i>S25</i>) on 29 December 1937. Almost identical to the <i>S14</i> class, but with 3 Mercedes Benz MB501 engines (of total 6,000 hp) instead of MAN engines. The bridge, which had been in front of the wheelhouse on earlier designs, was raised to the wheelhouse roof to increase all-round visibility.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"> <tbody><tr> <td>Number</td> <td>Builder</td> <td>Launched</td> <td>Commissioned</td> <td>Fate </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S18</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>13 January 1938</td> <td>14 July 1936</td> <td>Rebuilt as fast tug boat 1942, sunk by bombing 5 May 1945. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S19</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>10 May 1938</td> <td>6 October 1938</td> <td>Transferred to Britain post-war, sunk as target ship 1950. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S20</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1 October 1938</td> <td>21 March 1939</td> <td>Transferred to Britain post-war, scrapped 1948. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S21</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1 August 1938</td> <td>19 December 1938</td> <td>Transferred to Norway in 1945, scrapped 1950. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S22</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>31 January 1939</td> <td>16 May 1939</td> <td>Sunk at Wilhelmhaven by British bombing 30 March 1945. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S23</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>23 April 1939</td> <td>15 July 1939</td> <td>Badly damaged by mine 12 July 1940 in the North Sea, and scuttled. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S24</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>4 July 1939</td> <td>18 September 1939</td> <td>Transferred to USSR on 15 January 1946 as <i>TK-1004</i>, scrapped 1950 or later. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S25</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>19 September 1939</td> <td>9 December 1939</td> <td>Transferred to Britain post-war, scrapped 1948. </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1938_Orders">1938 Orders</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: 1938 Orders"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In May 1938 it was planned to order six additional boats every year until 1943 (thus providing a projected <i>S26</i> to <i>S61</i>). However, a speeding-up of production was decided on. Twelve additional boats were ordered - all from Lürssen - in August 1938. These were of two different models, due to accommodating different Daimler-Benz diesels. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="S26_class"><i>S26</i> class</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: S26 class"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="infobox" style="width:25.5em;border-spacing:2px;"> <tbody><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">General characteristics (<i>S26</i>-class)</th></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Class and type</td><td><a href="/wiki/Fast_attack_craft" title="Fast attack craft">Fast attack craft</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Displacement</td><td>112 tonnes (full load); 92.5 tonnes (standard)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Length</td><td>34.94 m (114 ft 8 in) <sup id="cite_ref-s-boot.net_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-s-boot.net-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Beam</td><td>5.28 m (17 ft 4 in)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Draught</td><td>1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Installed power</td><td>6,000 <a href="/wiki/Horsepower#Brake_horsepower" title="Horsepower">brake horsepower</a> (4,500 kW)<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="specs at bottom of page say 3x2000hp... (June 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Propulsion</td><td>3 × <a href="/wiki/Daimler_Benz" class="mw-redirect" title="Daimler Benz">Daimler Benz</a> MB 501 <a href="/wiki/Marine_diesel_engine" class="mw-redirect" title="Marine diesel engine">marine diesel engines</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Speed</td><td>39 <a href="/wiki/Knot_(unit)" title="Knot (unit)">knots</a> (72 km/h; 45 mph)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Range</td><td>700 <a href="/wiki/Nautical_mile" title="Nautical mile">nmi</a> (1,300 km; 810 mi) at 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Complement</td><td>24 normal (maximum 30)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Armament</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">2 × 533 mm (21.0 in) <a href="/wiki/Torpedo_tube" title="Torpedo tube">torpedo tubes</a> (4 <a href="/wiki/Torpedo" title="Torpedo">torpedoes</a>)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">2 × <a href="/wiki/2_cm_Flak_30,_Flak_38_and_Flakvierling_38" title="2 cm Flak 30, Flak 38 and Flakvierling 38">20 mm C/30 cannon</a> (1x twin)</li> </ul></td></tr> <tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The larger type (<i>S26</i> to <i>S29</i>), were ordered on 2 August, and entered service in 1940. Beginning with this model, the two torpedo tubes on the foredeck were encased within a high forecastle deck. This type were slightly lengthened from the <i>S18</i> design so that the engine compartments could accommodate the larger 20-cylinder diesels, they measured 34.94 x 5.28 x 1.67 m (114 ft 8in x 17 ft 4in x 5 ft 6in), giving a displacement of 92.5 tons (112 tons full load). These dimensions would be retained for all subsequent boats (except for the somewhat smaller <i>S30</i> class), as the basic design and layout would remain unchanged. The three Daimler Benz engines each produced 2,000 hp for a total rating of 6,000 hp, providing 39 knots. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SCHNELLBOOTE_26.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/SCHNELLBOOTE_26.jpg/220px-SCHNELLBOOTE_26.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="123" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/SCHNELLBOOTE_26.jpg/330px-SCHNELLBOOTE_26.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/SCHNELLBOOTE_26.jpg/440px-SCHNELLBOOTE_26.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2564" data-file-height="1434" /></a><figcaption>Schnellboot-26</figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"> <tbody><tr> <td>Number</td> <td>Builder</td> <td>Launched</td> <td>Commissioned</td> <td>Fate </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S26</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>7 March 1940</td> <td>21 May 1940</td> <td>Sunk in Soviet air attack at <a href="/wiki/Sulina" title="Sulina">Sulina</a>, Romania on 19 August 1944.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._261_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._261-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S27</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>15 April 1940</td> <td>5 July 1940</td> <td>Sunk by torpedo in the Black Sea on 5 September 1942 </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S28</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>4 July 1940</td> <td>1 September 1940</td> <td>Scuttled at Constanta on 25 August 1944 after heavy damage in air attack.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._262_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._262-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S29</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>14 October 1940</td> <td>28 November 1940</td> <td>Sunk 29 March 1943 in action with two British MGBs. </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="S30_class"><i>S30</i> class</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: S30 class"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="infobox" style="width:25.5em;border-spacing:2px;"> <tbody><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">General characteristics (<i>S30</i>-class)</th></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Class and type</td><td><a href="/wiki/Fast_attack_craft" title="Fast attack craft">Fast attack craft</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Displacement</td><td>100 tonnes (full load); 92.5 tonnes (standard)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Length</td><td>32.76 m (107.5 ft) <sup id="cite_ref-s-boot.net_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-s-boot.net-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Beam</td><td>5.06 m (16.6 ft)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Draught</td><td>1.47 m (4 ft 10 in)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Installed power</td><td>3,960 <a href="/wiki/Horsepower#Brake_horsepower" title="Horsepower">brake horsepower</a> (2,950 kW)<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="specs at bottom of page say 3x1320hp... (June 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Propulsion</td><td>3 × <a href="/wiki/Daimler_Benz" class="mw-redirect" title="Daimler Benz">Daimler Benz</a> MB 502 <a href="/wiki/Marine_diesel_engine" class="mw-redirect" title="Marine diesel engine">marine diesel engines</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Speed</td><td>43.8 <a href="/wiki/Knot_(unit)" title="Knot (unit)">knots</a> (81.1 km/h; 50.4 mph)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Range</td><td>800 <a href="/wiki/Nautical_mile" title="Nautical mile">nmi</a> (1,500 km; 920 mi) at 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Complement</td><td>24 normal (maximum 30)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Armament</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">2 × 533 mm (21.0 in) <a href="/wiki/Torpedo_tube" title="Torpedo tube">torpedo tubes</a> (4 <a href="/wiki/Torpedo" title="Torpedo">torpedoes</a>)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">3 × <a href="/wiki/2_cm_Flak_30,_Flak_38_and_Flakvierling_38" title="2 cm Flak 30, Flak 38 and Flakvierling 38">20 mm C/30 cannon</a> (1x twin, 1x single)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">1 × <a href="/wiki/3.7_cm_Flak_18/36/37" title="3.7 cm Flak 18/36/37">37 mm Flak 42 cannon</a></li> </ul></td></tr> <tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The other eight boats (<i>S30</i> to <i>S37</i>) were 2.18 m (7 ft 2in) shorter than the <i>S26</i> type and 22 cm (8.66 in) narrower. This is because their engines were the 16-cylinder (2,000 hp) Daimler-Benz MB502 diesels. They were originally ordered on 9 August (a week after <i>S26</i> to <i>S29</i>) for the Chinese (Nationalist) Navy (the last two initially from Naglo, Berlin, but the contract was later switched to Lürssen), and were sequestered for use by the Kriegsmarine. As they were already under construction at the outbreak of war, they were mostly completed before the <i>S26</i> type boats. </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"> <tbody><tr> <td>Number</td> <td>Builder</td> <td>Launched</td> <td>Commissioned</td> <td>Fate </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S30</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>10 September 1939</td> <td>22 November 1939</td> <td>Delivered to Allied forces at Ancona on 3 May 1945. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S31</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>21 October 1939</td> <td>28 December 1939</td> <td>Sunk by mine off Malta on 10 May 1942 </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S32</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>22 November 1939</td> <td>15 March 1940</td> <td>Sunk by mine off Dungeness on 21 June 1940. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S33</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>23 November 1939</td> <td>23 March 1940</td> <td>Beached on <a href="/wiki/Unije" title="Unije">Unije</a> Island on 10 January 1945 and sunk by British <i>MGB 698</i> on 16 January.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._231_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._231-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S34</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>29 February 1940</td> <td>30 April 1940</td> <td>Sunk by German Bf 109 following severe damage by coastal artillery at Valetta on 17 May 1942. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S35</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>19 March 1940</td> <td>19 May 1940</td> <td>Sunk by mine northeast of <a href="/wiki/Tabarka" title="Tabarka">Tabarka</a> (<a href="/wiki/Algeria" title="Algeria">Algeria</a>) in the Mediterranean on 28 February 1943.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S36</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>20 April 1940</td> <td>14 June 1940</td> <td>Damaged in collision with <i>S61</i> and paid off; delivered to Allied forces at Ancona on 3 May 1945. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S37</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>15 May 1940</td> <td>11 July 1940</td> <td>Sunk by mine off Orfordness on 12 October 1940. </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1939_Orders">1939 Orders</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: 1939 Orders"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>24 more boats were ordered - all from Lürssen (<i>S44</i> and <i>S45</i> were first scheduled to be built by Stettiner Oderwerk, but in the event all of this batch were contracted to Lürssen - on 24 September 1939. The pre-war Mobilisation New Construction Programme had called for 48 new boats per year, but this target was raised to 60 boats in September 1939 by the Naval War Staff. They called for a fleet level of 40 to 50 operational boats, with 16 being built annually as replacements. Sixteen were virtually identical with the <i>S26</i> type (measuring 34.94 m in length and with 20-cylinder MB501 diesels), other than simplified ventilators and other minor changes.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This design was to provide almost all of the <i>Schnellboote</i> built in Germany for the rest of the war. </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"> <tbody><tr> <td>Number</td> <td>Builder</td> <td>Launched</td> <td>Commissioned</td> <td>Fate </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S38</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1940</td> <td>8 November 1940</td> <td>Sunk by British destroyers 20 November 1940 in North Sea. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S39</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1940</td> <td>16 January 1941</td> <td>Sunk in British air attack on 2 August 1944 at Le Havre. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S40</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>14 December 1940</td> <td>22 April 1941</td> <td>Sunk in Soviet air attack at <a href="/wiki/Sulina" title="Sulina">Sulina</a>, Romania on 19 August 1944.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._261_18-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._261-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S41</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>9 January 1941</td> <td>27 February 1941</td> <td>Sunk in collision with <i>S47</i> on 19 November 1941. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S42</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1941</td> <td>16 March 1941</td> <td>Sunk in Soviet air attack at <a href="/wiki/Constanta" class="mw-redirect" title="Constanta">Constanta</a>, Romania on 23 August 1944.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._261_18-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._261-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S43</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>15 February 1941</td> <td>28 March 1941</td> <td>Sunk by mine on 27 June 1941 </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S44</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>8 March 1941</td> <td>19 April 1941</td> <td>Sunk in British air attack at <a href="/wiki/Kiel" title="Kiel">Kiel</a> on 25 July 1943. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S45</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>23 March 1941</td> <td>26 April 1941</td> <td>Scuttled off <a href="/wiki/Varna,_Bulgaria" title="Varna, Bulgaria">Varna</a> on 29 August 1944.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._262_19-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._262-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S46</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>7 April 1941</td> <td>22 May 1941</td> <td>Sunk in air attack on 10 September 1943 </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S47</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>25 April 1941</td> <td>13 June 1941</td> <td>Scuttled off Varna on 29 August 1944.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._262_19-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._262-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S48</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>28 April 1941</td> <td>120 June 1941</td> <td>To Norway (as <i>E4</i>) following end of war. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S49</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>May 1941</td> <td>11 July 1941</td> <td>Scuttled off Varna on 29 August 1944.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._262_19-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._262-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S50</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>18 June 1941</td> <td>25 July 1941</td> <td>To USSR on 15 January 1946, renamed <i>TK-1005</i>. Scrapped 1950. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S51</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1 July 1941</td> <td>8 August 1941</td> <td>Scuttled off Varna on 29 August 1944.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._262_19-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._262-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S52</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>11 July 1941</td> <td>23 August 1941</td> <td>Sunk in Soviet air attack at <a href="/wiki/Constanta" class="mw-redirect" title="Constanta">Constanta</a>, Romania on 23 August 1944.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._261_18-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._261-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S53</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>30 July 1941</td> <td>6 September 1941</td> <td>Sunk in collision with <i>S39</i> on 20 February 1942. </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>While until this date all boats had been procured from Lürssen, but the German Navy had been seeking a second yard to add to its construction capacity, and on 25 September a contract for eight boats (numbered from <i>S101</i> to <i>S108</i>) to the standard <i>S26</i> design was awarded to Schlichting-Werfk at Travemünde. This second builder was assigned a new series of numbers in the "101 range to distinguish them from the Lürssen boats. </p> <table class="wikitable" style="tet-align:left"> <tbody><tr> <td>Number</td> <td>Builder</td> <td>Launched</td> <td>Commissioned</td> <td>Fate </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S101</i></td> <td>Schlichting, Travemünde</td> <td>25 September 1940</td> <td>30 November 1940</td> <td>To USSR on 4 January 1946 as <i>TK-1011</i>, scrapped 1950. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S102</i></td> <td>Schlichting, Travemünde</td> <td>6 November 1940</td> <td>31 December 1940</td> <td>Sunk by mine 8 July 1943 in the Kerch Strait. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S103</i></td> <td>Schlichting, Travemünde</td> <td>21 December 1940</td> <td>9 February 19412</td> <td>Sunk by British air attack 4 May 1945 off Mommark. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S104</i></td> <td>Schlichting, Travemünde</td> <td>18 February 1941</td> <td>27 March 1941</td> <td>Sunk by mine 9 January 1943 in the Channel. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S105</i></td> <td>Schlichting, Travemünde</td> <td>22 March 1941</td> <td>4 May 1941</td> <td>To Britain 1945, sold 1947. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S106</i></td> <td>Schlichting, Travemünde</td> <td>26 April 1941</td> <td>6 June 1941</td> <td>Sunk by mine 27 June 1941 in <a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Bothnia" title="Gulf of Bothnia">Gulf of Bothnia</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S107</i></td> <td>Schlichting, Travemünde</td> <td>31 May 1941</td> <td>6 July 1941</td> <td>To USA 1945, then to Denmark 1947 as <i>T52</i> (later <i>Gribben</i>); scrapped 1950. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S108</i></td> <td>Schlichting, Travemünde</td> <td>28 June 1941</td> <td>14 August 1941</td> <td>Scrapped 1946. </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Following the outbreak of war, another eight boats were ordered from Lürssen on 14 November 1939 to the same <i>Schnellboot 1939</i> design as the <i>S30</i> group (measuring 32.76 m in length and with 16-cylinder MB502 diesels), </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"> <tbody><tr> <td>Number</td> <td>Builder</td> <td>Launched</td> <td>Commissioned</td> <td>Fate </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S54</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>11 June 1940</td> <td>9 August 1940</td> <td>Badly damaged by mine on 23 April 1944, scrapped 31 October 1944. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S55</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>2 July 1940</td> <td>23 August 1940</td> <td>Sunk in air attack on 10 January 1944 in <a href="/wiki/Vela_Luka_Bay" title="Vela Luka Bay">Vela Luka Bay</a>, <a href="/wiki/Croatia" title="Croatia">Croatia</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S56</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>22 July 1940</td> <td>20 September 1940</td> <td>Sunk in air attack at Toulon on 24 November 1943; raised and broken up. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S57</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>10 August 1940</td> <td>30 September 1940</td> <td>Sunk by British MTBs in the Adriatic on 19 August 1944. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S58</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>10 September 1940</td> <td>18 November 1940</td> <td>Beached on Unije Island and sunk by British MGBs on 16 January 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._231_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._231-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S59</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>20 October 1940</td> <td>27 November 1940</td> <td>Sunk by air attack at <a href="/wiki/Porto_Empedocle" title="Porto Empedocle">Porto Empedocle</a> (Sicily) on 6 July 1943. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S60</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>22 October 1940</td> <td>20 December 1940</td> <td>Beached on Unije Island and sunk by British MGBs on 16 January 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._231_37-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._231-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S61</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>27 November 1940</td> <td>1 February 1941</td> <td>Surrendered to Allies at Ancona 3 May 1945 </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1940_orders">1940 orders</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: 1940 orders"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 4 June 1940 a further batch of boats to the <i>S26</i> design was ordered. This comprised 8 boats from Lürssen (<i>S62</i> to <i>S69</i>) and 9 boats from Schlichting (<i>S109</i> to <i>S117</i>). <i>S67</i> introduced an improved design with a partially armour-plated cupola (the <i>Kalotte</i> or <i>skull cap</i>) over the bridge, providing protection from weather as well as small arms fire, with a lower profile. From 1943 orders onwards, this armoured bridge became standard, and was also retro-fitted to many of the earlier boats. Various armaments were carried including 40 mm Bofors or 20 mm Flak aft, MG34 <i>Zwillingsockel</i> midships. <br />(Note the designation '38b' sometimes seen is not Kriegsmarine nomenclature and originated in a postwar American hobby publication). </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"> <tbody><tr> <td>Number</td> <td>Builder</td> <td>Launched</td> <td>Commissioned</td> <td>Fate </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S62</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>August 1941</td> <td>19 September 1941</td> <td>To Norway 1945, then to Britain; scrapped 1947. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S63</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>27 August 1941</td> <td>2 October 1941</td> <td>Rammed and sunk 25 October 1943 off <a href="/wiki/Cromer" title="Cromer">Cromer</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S64</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>September 1941</td> <td>2 November 1941</td> <td>To USA 1945, given to Norway 1947 as <i>Lyn</i>, then to Denmark 1951 as <i>Storfuglen</i>, scrapped 1965. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S65</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>20 September 1941</td> <td>16 June 1942</td> <td>To USSR on 15 January 1946 as <i>TK-1006</i>, scrapped 1950. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S66</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>6 October 1941</td> <td>21 June 1942</td> <td>Sunk by air attack by British at Kiel on 25 July 1943. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S67</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>23 October 1941</td> <td>19 March 1942</td> <td>To Britain 1945, sold to Italy 1952 as <i>MV 621</i>, scrapped 1966. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S68</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>6 November 1941</td> <td>1 July 1942</td> <td>To USA 1945, given to Denmark 1947 as <i>T62</i>, renamed <i>Viben</i> 1953, scrapped 1966. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S69</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>24 November 1941</td> <td>21 December 1941</td> <td>To Britain 1945, scrapped 1947. </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"> <tbody><tr> <td>Number</td> <td>Builder</td> <td>Launched</td> <td>Commissioned</td> <td>Fate </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S109</i></td> <td>Schlichting, Travemünde</td> <td>14 August 1941</td> <td>14 September 1941</td> <td>To USSR 9n 4 January 1946 as <i>TK-1012</i>, scrapped 1949. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S110</i></td> <td>Schlichting, Travemünde</td> <td>13 September 1941</td> <td>10 October 1941</td> <td>To USSR on 15 January 1946 as <i>TK-1013</i>, scrapped 1949. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S111</i></td> <td>Schlichting, Travemünde</td> <td>18 October 1941</td> <td>11 December 1941</td> <td>Damaged in action 16 March 1942 in the North Sea, captured then recaptured and scuttled. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S112</i></td> <td>Schlichting, Travemünde</td> <td>2 December 1941</td> <td>28 January 1942</td> <td>To France in 1945, scrapped 1951. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S113</i></td> <td>Schlichting, Travemünde</td> <td>7 February 1942</td> <td>14 March 1942</td> <td>To USSR on 5 November 1945 as <i>TK-1014</i>, scrapped 1949. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S114</i></td> <td>Schlichting, Travemünde</td> <td>14 March 1942</td> <td>23 April 1942</td> <td>Sunk in British air attack on 2 August 1944 at Le Havre. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S115</i></td> <td>Schlichting, Travemünde</td> <td>10 April 1942</td> <td>30 May 1942</td> <td>To UK in 1945, fate unknown. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S116</i></td> <td>Schlichting, Travemünde</td> <td>7 May 1842</td> <td>4 July 1942</td> <td>Paid off after accident in Elbe estuary in January 1945; to Denmark in 1945; sold to Germany 1953, burnt by accident 1965. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S117</i></td> <td>Schlichting, Travemünde</td> <td>13 June 1942</td> <td>8 August 1942</td> <td>To USA in 1945, then to Norway 1946 as <i>B97</i>, later <i>Tross</i>; sold 1951 to Denmark as <i>Hejren</i>, scrapped 1965. </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Following the German occupation of France in June 1940, the Naval War Staff decided that 160 E-boats were now needed (comprising 26 flotillas), with 8 flotillas based in France and 6 each in Norway, the Baltic and the North Sea.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 26 August an additional four boats (<i>S70</i> to <i>S73</i>) were ordered from Lürssen, and in December Schlichting were given another order, this time for eight boats (<i>S118</i> to <i>S125</i>), </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"> <tbody><tr> <td>Number</td> <td>Builder</td> <td>Launched</td> <td>Commissioned</td> <td>Fate </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S70</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>15 November 1941</td> <td>11 December 1941</td> <td>Sunk by mine in the Channel 5 March 1943. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S71</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>4 December 1941</td> <td>11 January 1942</td> <td>Sunk by British destroyers 18 February 1943 in the Channel. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S72</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>18 December 1941</td> <td>3 February 1942</td> <td>Sunk in Soviet air attack at <a href="/wiki/Sulina" title="Sulina">Sulina</a>, Romania on 19 August 1944.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._261_18-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._261-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S73</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>6 January 1942</td> <td>19 February 1942</td> <td>Sold to Spain on 16 August 1943 as <i>LT23</i>. </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"> <tbody><tr> <td>Number</td> <td>Builder</td> <td>Launched</td> <td>Commissioned</td> <td>Fate </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S118</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>30 July 1942</td> <td>14 September 1942</td> <td>To USSR on 14 January 1946 as <i>TK-1015</i>, scrapped 1949. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S119</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>27 August 1942</td> <td>22 October 1942</td> <td>Scuttled after collision with <i>S114</i> on 8 March 1943 in the Channel. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S120</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>13 October 1942</td> <td>5 December 1942</td> <td>To Britain 1945, scrapped 1947. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S121</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>28 November 1942</td> <td>11 January 1943</td> <td>Sunk in British air attack on 11 August 1943 at <a href="/wiki/Aber_Wrac%27h" title="Aber Wrac'h">Aberwrac'h</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S122</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>30 December 1942</td> <td>21 February 1943</td> <td>To USA in 1945; to Denmark 1947 as <i>T64</i>; scrapped 1956. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S123</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>6 February 1943</td> <td>19 March 1943</td> <td>To USSR on 4 January 1946 as <i>TK-1016</i>, scrapped 1949. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S124</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>6 March 1943</td> <td>15 April 1943</td> <td>Sold to Spain on 16 August 1943 as <i>LT21</i>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S125</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>3 April 1943</td> <td>16 May 1943</td> <td>Sold to Spain on 16 August 1943 as <i>LT25</i>. </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1941_orders">1941 orders</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: 1941 orders"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Another 40 boats were ordered in 1941, 16 from Lürssen on 3 January (numbered <i>S74</i> to <i>S89</i>), another 16 from the same yard on 18 September (numbered <i>S90</i> to <i>S100</i> and from <i>S134</i> to <i>S138</i>) and 8 from Schlichting at Travemünde (<i>S126</i> to <i>S133</i>), also on 18 September. </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"> <tbody><tr> <td><i>S74</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>12 February 1942</td> <td>27 March 1942</td> <td>Sunk by torpedo from <i>S135</i> on 5 November 1943 after being disabled in British air attack. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S75</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>?February 1942</td> <td>9 April 1942</td> <td>Sunk by British air attack on 5 March 1943 at <a href="/wiki/Ijmuiden" class="mw-redirect" title="Ijmuiden">Ijmuiden</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S76</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>March 1942</td> <td>1 May 1942</td> <td>To USA 1945, given to Norway 1947, scrapped 1950. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S77</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>31 March 1942</td> <td>9 May 1942</td> <td>Sunk by gunfire 25 July 1943 in action off <a href="/wiki/Ostend" title="Ostend">Ostend</a> with British <i>MGB40</i> and <i>MGB42</i>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S78</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>8 April 1942</td> <td>3 June 1942</td> <td>Sold to Spain on 16 August 1943 as <i>LT24</i>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S79</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>22 April 1942</td> <td>27 June 1942</td> <td>To Norway 1945, given to Denmark 1947 as <i>T58</i>, renamed <i>Musvaagen</i>, scrapped 1955. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S80</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1942</td> <td>10 July 1942</td> <td>Sunk by mine off <a href="/wiki/Viborg,_Denmark" title="Viborg, Denmark">Viborg</a> in the Baltic Sea on 1 September 1944. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S81</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1942</td> <td>28 July 1942</td> <td>To USSR on 4 January 1946 as <i>TK-1001</i>, scrapped 1950. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S82</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1942</td> <td>21 August 1942</td> <td>To USSR 15 January 1946 as <i>TK-1008</i>, scrapped 1950. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S83</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1942</td> <td>7 September 1942</td> <td>To Britain 1945, fate unknown. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S84</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1942</td> <td>19 September 1942</td> <td>Sunk by British air attack on Le Havre on 14 June 1944.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._289-290_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._289-290-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S85</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1942</td> <td>7 December 1942</td> <td>To USA 1945, given to Norway as <i>Storm</i>; sold to Denmark 1951 as <i>Tranen</i>, sunk in collision 27 June 1963. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S86</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1942</td> <td>15 October 1942</td> <td>To USSR on 4 January 1946 as <i>TK-1009</i>, scrapped 1950. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S87</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1942</td> <td>4 November 1942</td> <td>Sunk in British air attack 20 May 1944 off <a href="/wiki/Ostend" title="Ostend">Ostend</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S88</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>6 October 1942</td> <td>20 November 1942</td> <td>Sunk by gunfire from HMS <i>Worcester</i> and British MTBs on 25 October 1943 off <a href="/wiki/Cromer" title="Cromer">Cromer</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S89</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1942</td> <td>28 November 1942</td> <td>To Britain 1946, beached during transfer. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S90</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1942</td> <td>10 December 1942</td> <td>Beached on island of <a href="/wiki/Bru,_Rogaland" title="Bru, Rogaland">Bru, Rogaland</a> on 17 July 1945. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S91</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1942</td> <td>22 December 1942</td> <td>Sunk 25 February 1944 by gunfire from HMS <i>Retalick</i> and <i>Talybont</i> in the Channel. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S92</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1942</td> <td>14 January 1943</td> <td>To Britain 1945, sold 1947. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S93</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>17 December 1942</td> <td>4 February 1943</td> <td>Sunk in US air attack at Ijmuidden on 26 March 1944. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S94</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>31 December 1942</td> <td>18 February 1943</td> <td>Scuttled after collision with <i>S128</i> on 23 February 1944. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S95</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1942</td> <td>28 February 1943</td> <td>To Britain 1945, sold 1949. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S96</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>21 January 1943</td> <td>11 March 1943</td> <td>Scuttled after collision with British <i>ML145</i> on 25 September 1943 off <a href="/wiki/Lowestoft" title="Lowestoft">Lowestoft</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S97</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1943</td> <td>25 March 1943</td> <td>To USA 1945, given to Denmark 1947 as <i>Ravnen</i>, scrapped 1963. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S98</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1943</td> <td>10 April 1943</td> <td>To USA 1945, given to Norway 1948 as <i>Kvikk</i>, scrapped 1950. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S99</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1943</td> <td>17 April 1943</td> <td>To USSR on 4 January 1946 as <i>TK-1010</i>, scrapped 1950. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S100</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1943</td> <td>5 May 1943</td> <td>Sunk by British air attack on Le Havre on 14 June 1944.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._289-290_40-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._289-290-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S134</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1943</td> <td>29 May 1943</td> <td>Sold to Spain on 16 August 1943 as <i>LT26</i>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S135</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1943</td> <td>29 May 1943</td> <td>To USSR on 4 January 1946, becoming <i>TK-1018</i>; scrapped 1952. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S136</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1943</td> <td>10 June 1943</td> <td>Sunk in action with HMCS <i>Sioux</i>, HMS <i>Duff</i> and Polish <i>Krakowiak</i> east of Cape Barfleur on 11 June 1944. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S137</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1943</td> <td>6 July 1943</td> <td>Sunk by USAAF raid (by 8th Air Force B-17s) on Kiel on 29 July 1943. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S138</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1943</td> <td>20 July 1943</td> <td>Sunk during RAF raid on Le Havre on 15 June 1944; raised in August 1944 and scrapped. </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"> <tbody><tr> <td>Number</td> <td>Builder</td> <td>Launched</td> <td>Commissioned</td> <td>Fate </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S126</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>8 May 1843</td> <td>12 June 1943</td> <td>Sold to Spain on 16 August 1943 as <i>LT26</i>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S127</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>5 June 1943</td> <td>10 July 1943</td> <td>To USA in 1945, then to Denmark 1947 as <i>T56</i>; scrapped 1955. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S128</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>8 July 1943</td> <td>27 August 1943</td> <td>Scuttled after collision with <i>S94</i> on 23 February 1944 </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S129</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>12 August 1943</td> <td>24 September 1943</td> <td>Sunk in US air attack at Ijmuidden on 26 March 1944. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S130</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>18 September 1943</td> <td>21 October 1943</td> <td>To UK 1945, sold to Germany 1957 as <i>UW10</i>. Still extant in UK. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S131</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>16 October 1943</td> <td>5 January 1944</td> <td>Sunk in Soviet air attack at <a href="/wiki/Constanta" class="mw-redirect" title="Constanta">Constanta</a>, Romania on 23 August 1944.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._261_18-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._261-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S132</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>13 November 1943</td> <td>10 December 1943</td> <td>To USSR 1945, becoming <i>TK-1017</i>; scrapped 1956. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S133</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>1943</td> <td>31 December 1943</td> <td>To USA at war's end, given to Denmark 1947 as <i>T54</i>, scrapped 1955. </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1942_orders">1942 orders</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: 1942 orders"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Orders for a further 16 boats were given to Lürssen on 24 February 1942. The first 12 of these were numbered <i>S139</i> to <i>S150</i>; the next sixteen numbers were allocated to construction at Schiedam in Holland, so the final four of the Lürssen batch were numbered <i>S167</i> to <i>S170</i>. </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"> <tbody><tr> <td>Number</td> <td>Builder</td> <td>Launched</td> <td>Commissioned</td> <td>Fate </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S139</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1943</td> <td>1 August 1943</td> <td>Sunk by mine on 7 June 1944 off <a href="/wiki/Barfleur" title="Barfleur">Barfleur</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S140</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1943</td> <td>7 August 1943</td> <td>Sunk by mine on 7 June 1944 off Barfleur. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S141</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1943</td> <td>20 August 1943</td> <td>Sunk by French destroyer <i>La Combattante</i> off <a href="/wiki/Selsey_Bill" title="Selsey Bill">Selsey Bill</a> on 13 May 1944. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S142</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1943</td> <td>3 September 1943</td> <td>Sunk by British air attack on Le Havre on 14 June 1944.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._289-290_40-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._289-290-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S143</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1943</td> <td>17 September 1943</td> <td>Sunk by British air attack on Le Havre on 14 June 1944.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._289-290_40-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._289-290-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S144</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1943</td> <td>1 October 1943</td> <td>Badly damaged by British air attack on Le Havre on 14 June 1944, and scrapped<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._289-290_40-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._289-290-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S145</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1943</td> <td>8 October 1943</td> <td>Damaged by air attack on Brest on 18 September 1944 and blown up. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S146</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1943</td> <td>22 October 1943</td> <td>Sunk by British air attack on Le Havre on 14 June 1944.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._289-290_40-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._289-290-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S147</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1943</td> <td>5 November 1943</td> <td>Sunk by French destroyer <i>La Combattante</i> off <a href="/wiki/Cherbourg" title="Cherbourg">Cherbourg</a> on 25 April 1944. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S148</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1943</td> <td>5 January 1944</td> <td>Sunk by mine off Dnetrr-Liman on 22 August 1944. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S149</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1943</td> <td>5 January 1944</td> <td>Scuttled at Constanta on 25 August 1944 after heavy damage in air attack.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._262_19-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._262-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S150</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1943</td> <td>4 December 1943</td> <td>Sunk by British air attack on Le Havre on 14 June 1944.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._289-290_40-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._289-290-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="S151_class"><i>S151</i> class</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: S151 class"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Eight smaller torpedo boats were building for the Dutch Navy at Gusto Werf, <a href="/wiki/Schiedam" title="Schiedam">Schiedam</a> (near Rotterdam) as <i>TM54</i> to <i>TM61</i> inclusive. When Holland was occupied by the Germans, these were seized and completed (with some design modifications) by German and Dutch shipyard workers and renumbered as <i>S151</i> to <i>S158</i>. They measured 28.3 x 4.46 metres (92 ft 10in x 14 ft 7in), displacing 57 tons. Originally the Germans planned to sell these to <a href="/wiki/Bulgaria" title="Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a>, and they were formed as the new 7th S-flotilla in October 1941, but the Kriegsmarine's need for them in the Mediterranean had caused them to be sent south via the French inland waterways. They were authorised to transfer to the Mediterranean on 15 July 1942, and arrived there on 8 October, finally reaching <a href="/wiki/Augusta,_Sicily" title="Augusta, Sicily">Augusta, Sicily</a> on 15 December, when they became operational.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"> <tbody><tr> <td>Number</td> <td>Builder</td> <td>Commissioned</td> <td>Fate </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S151</i></td> <td>Gusto Werf, Schiedam</td> <td>19 December 1941</td> <td>Badly damaged off Korkula by British destroyere on 11 July 1944; surrendered to Allies at Ancona 3 May 1945. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S152</i></td> <td>Gusto Werf, Schiedam</td> <td>31 March 1942</td> <td>Surrendered to Allies at Ancona 3 May 1945. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S153</i></td> <td>Gusto Werf, Schiedam</td> <td>19 April 1942</td> <td>Sunk by HMS <i>Eggesford</i> and <i>Blackmore</i> off <a href="/wiki/Hvar" title="Hvar">Hvar</a> 12 June 1944.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S154</i></td> <td>Gusto Werf, Schiedam</td> <td>10 June 1942</td> <td>Sunk by bombing at Pola 22 January 1945 </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S155</i></td> <td>Gusto Werf, Schiedam</td> <td>19 July 1942</td> <td>Surrendered to Allies at Ancona 3 May 1945 </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S156</i></td> <td>Gusto Werf, Schiedam</td> <td>5 September 1942</td> <td>Surrendered to Allies at Ancona 3 May 1945 </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S157</i></td> <td>Gusto Werf, Schiedam</td> <td>8 September 1942</td> <td>Sunk by Yogoslav mortar fire west of Trieste 1 May 1945 </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S158</i></td> <td>Gusto Werf, Schiedam</td> <td>9 September 1942</td> <td>Disabled by British air attack at Sibenik 25 October 1944, then scuttled on 26 or 27 October.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>Eight further vessels had been intended by the Dutch Navy as <i>TM62</i> to <i>TM70</i>, and material had been collected for their construction at Schiedam. They were cancelled with the German occupation in May 1940; they were re-ordered (as <i>S159</i> to <i>S166</i>) from Gusto Werf on 11 July 1941, but construction of these stopped in April 1942. </p><p>Continuation of <i>S139</i> batch </p><p>All these were part of the order placed on 24 February 1942, and the first three were identical to <i>S139</i> batch. However the final boat, <i>S170</i>, was the prototype (along with <i>S228</i> at Travemünde) for the final series of boats ordered in December 1943 (few of which were completed) with the first MB518 engines of 3,000 hp for evaluation; her details were the same as for that final series of orders. </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"> <tbody><tr> <td>Number</td> <td>Builder</td> <td>Launched</td> <td>Commissioned</td> <td>Fate </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S167</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1943</td> <td>17 December 1943</td> <td>Sank in the <a href="/wiki/Scheldt" title="Scheldt">Scheldt</a> Estuary on 25 February 1945 after collision 22 February. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S168</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1943</td> <td>23 December 1943</td> <td>To UK 1945, scrapped 1947. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S169</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1943</td> <td>3 January 1944</td> <td>Sunk by British air attack on Le Havre on 14 June 1944.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._289-290_40-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._289-290-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S170</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1943</td> <td>11 February 1944</td> <td>Blown up in <a href="/wiki/Lubeck" class="mw-redirect" title="Lubeck">Lubeck</a> on 3 May 1945. </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1943_orders">1943 orders</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: 1943 orders"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Needing to increase production, orders for two batches of vessels were placed during the first half of 1943, totalling sixty boats. An order for sixteen boats was placed with Lürssen's yard on 15 January 1943 (<i>S171</i> to <i>S186</i>), and another order for eight boats with Schlichting at Travemünde on the same day (<i>S187</i> to <i>S194</i>). On 7 May another batch was ordered from the same builders - twenty-four from Lürssen (<i>S195</i> to <i>S218</i>) and twelve from Schlichting (<i>S219</i> to <i>S230</i>), although the final two from the Schlichting order were seemingly deferred, to be re-included in the much larger order placed in December. </p><p>Like the <i>S139</i> batch, almost all of these were a metre longer than the original <i>S26</i> class in order to have room to fit the new supercharged MB511 engines. The sole exception was <i>S228</i> - the final boat from this batch to be completed at Travemünde, which was that yard's prototype for the final mass series which were ordered in December 1943, built to carry the new MB518 diesels, and was thus the equivalent test-bed at that yard to <i>S170</i> from Lürssen. All the other 57 boats completed from this batch had MB 511 diesels fitted. </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"> <tbody><tr> <td>Number</td> <td>Builder</td> <td>Launched</td> <td>Commissioned</td> <td>Fate </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S171</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1943</td> <td>22 January 1944</td> <td>Sunk by British air attack on Le Havre on 14 June 1944.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._289-290_40-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._289-290-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S172</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1943</td> <td>18 February 1944</td> <td>Sunk by British air attack on Le Havre on 14 June 1944.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._289-290_40-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._289-290-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S173</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1943</td> <td>25 February 1944</td> <td>Sunk by British air attack on Le Havre on 14 June 1944.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._289-290_40-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._289-290-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S174</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1943</td> <td>3 March 1944</td> <td>To USA in 1945; given to Norway 1947 as <i>Rapp</i>, scrapped 1953. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S175</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>11 March 1944</td> <td>To USSR 1945, becoming <i>TK-1019</i>; scrapped 1952. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S176</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>17 March 1944</td> <td>Scuttled after ramming British <i>MTB494</i> on 7 April 1945. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S177</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>30 March 1944</td> <td>Scuttled after ramming British <i>MTB493</i> on 7 April 1945. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S178</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>6 April 1944</td> <td>Sunk by British air attack off Boulogne on 13 June 1944. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S179</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>19 April 1944</td> <td>Sunk by British air attack off Boulogne on 13 June 1944. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S180</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>28 April 1944</td> <td>Sunk by mine off Hook of Holland on 14 January 1945. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S181</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>5 May 1944</td> <td>Sunk by British air attack off Den Helder on 21 March 1945 </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S182</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>12 May 1944</td> <td>Sunk in collision with British <i>MTB430</i> in the Channel on 27 July 1944. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S183</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>19 May 1944</td> <td>Sunk by gunfire from HMS <i>Stayner</i> off Dunkirk on 19 September 1944. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S184</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>28 May 1944</td> <td>Damaged by gunfire from British coastal battery off Dover on 5 September 1944 and scuttled. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S185</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>3 June 1944</td> <td>Sunk by gunfire from British escorts off Ostend on 23 December 1944. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S186</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>23 June 1944</td> <td>Sunk at Wilhelmhaven by British bombing 30 March 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._311_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._311-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S187</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>31 December 1943</td> <td>10 February 1944</td> <td>Sunk by British air attack on Le Havre on 14 June 1944.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._289-290_40-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._289-290-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S188</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>6 February 1944</td> <td>1 March 1944</td> <td>Sunk by British air attack on Le Havre on 14 June 1944.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._289-290_40-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._289-290-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S189</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>6 March 1944</td> <td>31 March 1944</td> <td>Sunk by British air attack off Boulogne on 13 June 1944. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S190</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>30 March 1944</td> <td>22 April 1944</td> <td>Sunk by gunfire from British ships in Seine Estuary on 23 June 1944. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S191</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>22 April 1944</td> <td>18 May 1944</td> <td>Scuttled 4 May 1945 in Fehmannsound after collision with <i>S301</i>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S192</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>13 May 1944</td> <td>7 June 1944</td> <td>Sunk by gunfire from British escorts off Ostend on 23 December 1944. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S193</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>6 June 1944</td> <td>28 June 1944</td> <td>Sunk by gunfire from British escorts in North Sea on 22 February 1945. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S194</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>23 June 1944</td> <td>19 July 1944</td> <td>Sunk at Wilhelmhaven by British bombing 30 March 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._311_44-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._311-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S195</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>28 June 1944</td> <td>To USA at war's end, given to Norwegian Navy 1945 as <i>Kjekk</i>, scrapped 1956. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S196</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>3 July 1944</td> <td>To UK a war's end, given to Denmark 1947 as <i>Raalgen</i> (<i>T59</i>), scrapped 1958 after 1951 collision. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S197</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>10 July 1944</td> <td>To USA at war's end, given to Denmark 1947 as <i>Lommen</i>, scrapped 1972. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S198</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>15 July 1944</td> <td>Sunk in British air attack at Ijmuiden on 15 December 1944. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S199</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>21 July 1944</td> <td>Scuttled after collision with <i>S701</i> on 23 January 1945. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S200</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>3 August 1944</td> <td>Sunk by gunfire from British escorts off Dunkirk on 19 September 1944. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S201</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>28 July 1944</td> <td>Scuttled at Kiel on 3 May 1945 after air attack damage. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S202</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>8 August 1944</td> <td>Sunk in collision with <i>S703</i> on 8 April 1945 in the <a href="/wiki/Scheldt" title="Scheldt">Scheldt</a> approaches in action with British MGBs.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._312_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._312-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S203</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>13 August 1944</td> <td>Scuttled off Lindesne after collision with <i>R220</i> on 10 November 1944. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S204</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>19 August 1944</td> <td>To USSR 1945, becoming <i>TK-1020</i>; scrapped 1954. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S205</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>28 August 1944</td> <td>To UK in 1945, scrapped 1946. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S206</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>31 August 1944</td> <td>To USA at war's end, given to Denmark 1947 as <i>Hoegen</i> (<i>T55</i>), scrapped 1957 after collision. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S207</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>19 September 1944</td> <td>To UK at war's end, given to Denmark 1947 as <i>Skaden</i> (<i>T61</i>), scrapped 1960. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S208</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>28 September 1944</td> <td>To USA at war's end, given to Germany 1957, scrapped 1967. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S209</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>21 October 1944</td> <td>To USSR in 1945, renamed <i>TK-1021</i>; scrapped 1954. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S210</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>27 September 1944</td> <td>To USA at war's end, given to Norwegian Navy 1947 as <i>Snar</i>, scrapped 1950. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S211</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>1 October 1944</td> <td>To USSR on 15 January 1946, renamed <i>TK-1022</i>; scrapped 1954. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S212</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>11 October 1944</td> <td>To UK in 1945, scrapped 1957. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S213</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>7 January 1945</td> <td>To UK in 1945, scrapped 1945. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S214</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>8 December 1944</td> <td>To USSR on 4 January 1946, renamed <i>TK-1023</i>; scrapped 1954. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S215</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>1 December 1944</td> <td>To UK in 1945, scrapped 1948. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S216</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>27 December 1944</td> <td>To USA at war's end, given to Denmark 1947 as <i>Havoarnen</i> (<i>T53</i>), scrapped 1957. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S217</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>30 January 1945</td> <td>To UK in 1945, scrapped 1948. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S218</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>18 January 1945</td> <td>To USA in 1945, fate unknown. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S219</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>11 July 1944</td> <td>9 August 1944</td> <td>To USSR on 15 January 1946, renamed <i>TK-1024</i>; scrapped 1957. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S220</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>9 August 1944</td> <td>27 August 1944</td> <td>Badly damaged in action 1 March 1945 and scuttled. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S221</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>16 August 1944</td> <td>10 September 1944</td> <td>To UK 1945. Scrapped 1948. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S222</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>31 August 1944</td> <td>23 September 1944</td> <td>To USSR on 4 January 1946, renamed <i>TK-1025</i>. Scrapped 1953. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S223</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>14 September 1944</td> <td>29 October 1944</td> <td>Sunk by mine off <a href="/wiki/Ostend" title="Ostend">Ostend</a> on 8 April 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._312_45-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._312-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S224</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>1944</td> <td>17 November 1944</td> <td>Sunk at Wilhelmhaven by British bombing 30 March 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._311_44-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._311-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S225</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>1944</td> <td>1 December 1944</td> <td>To USA 1945, fate unknown </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S226</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>1944</td> <td>27 February 1945</td> <td>Sunk in air attack 6 May 1945 </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S227</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>1944</td> <td>1944 or 1945</td> <td>To USSR 1945, renamed <i>TK-1026</i>. Scrapped 1949. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S228</i></td> <td>Schlichting Travemünde</td> <td>1944</td> <td>19 April 1945</td> <td>To UK 1945. Scrapped 1946. </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>The final batch ordered on 4 December 1943 comprised a massive total of 282 units - <i>S229</i> to <i>S260</i> (32 boats) from Schlichting; <i>S301</i> to <i>S425</i> (125 boats) from Lürssen; and <i>S701</i> to <i>S825</i> (125 boats) from Danziger Waggon at <a href="/wiki/Danzig" class="mw-redirect" title="Danzig">Danzig</a>. The first four of the Schlichting boats (<i>S229</i> to <i>S230</i>) were completed by April 1945 but not placed into service; these were presumably broken up in the shipyard following the cessation of hostilities. Of the projected numbers from the other two builders only the first five from Lürssen and 9 from Danzig were completed. Another seven were launched but not completed; these were scuttled in the North Sea, while fourteen more were scrapped in the Lürssen shipyard (<i>S308</i> to <i>S328</i>) and others at Travemünde and Danzig. The remainder were all cancelled. </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"> <tbody><tr> <td>Number</td> <td>Builder</td> <td>Launched</td> <td>Commissioned</td> <td>Fate </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S301</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>31 January 1945</td> <td>Scuttled 7 May 1945 in Fehmannsound after collision with <i>S191</i>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S302</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>12 February 1945</td> <td>To USA at end of war, then became Norwegian <i>E1</i> in July 1947, renamed <i>Blink</i> in 1948; sold to Denmark 1951 as <i>Falken</i>, scrapped 1972. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S303</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>24 February 1945</td> <td>To USA at end of war, then became Norwegian <i>E2</i> in July 1946, renamed <i>Brand</i> in 1948; sold to Denmark 1950 as <i>Taarnfalken</i>, scrapped 1972. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S304</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>9 March 1945</td> <td>To UK in 1945; scrapped 1946. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S305</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>29 March 1945</td> <td>To USA in 1945, then became to Denmark on 31 July 1947 as <i>T57</i>, later named <i>Jagtfalken</i>, scrapped 1962. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S306</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>April 1945 <br />(incomplete)</td> <td>To USA in 1945, then to Denmark on 31 July 1947 as <i>Glenten</i>, scrapped 1960. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S307</i></td> <td>Lürssen, Vegesack</td> <td>1944</td> <td>April 1945 <br />(incomplete)</td> <td>To UK in 1945, then scrapped. </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="S501_class"><i>S501</i> class</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: S501 class"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>These small ex-Italian Navy boats of the Baglietto fast type (or <i>MAS526</i> type) were taken over by the Germans in the Black Sea on 20 May 1943.<sup id="cite_ref-Aldo_Fraccaroli_1968_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Aldo_Fraccaroli_1968-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first seven of these measured 18.7 x 4.7 x 1.5 m (61 ft 4in x 15 ft 5in x 4 ft 11in) and displaced 25.2 tons (29.4 tons full load). These 2-shaft boats were driven by 2 Isotta-Fraschini petrol engines of 2,000 hp to reach 42 knots. They carried two 450mm torpedoes plus one MG or 20mm gun, and 6 depth charges, with a crew of 10. All 7 were transferred to the Romania in August 1943, but seized by the USSR on 5 September 1943. </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"> <tbody><tr> <td>Number</td> <td>Ex-Italian</td> <td>Builder</td> <td>Launched</td> <td>Fate </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S501</i></td> <td>ex MAS 566</td> <td>Baglietto, <a href="/wiki/Varazze" title="Varazze">Varazze</a></td> <td>20 June 1941</td> <td>Sunk in Black Sea 1944 </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S502</i></td> <td>ex MAS 567</td> <td>Basglietto, Varazze</td> <td>20 July 1941</td> <td>Sunk in Black Sea 1944 </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S503</i></td> <td>ex MAS 568</td> <td>Basglietto, Varazze</td> <td>11 August 1941</td> <td>Sunk in Black Sea 1944 </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S504</i></td> <td>ex MAS 569</td> <td>Basglietto, Varazze</td> <td>8 September 1941</td> <td>Sunk in Black Sea 1944 </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S505</i></td> <td>ex MAS 570</td> <td>Basglietto, Varazze</td> <td>20 September 1941</td> <td>Sunk in Black Sea 1944 </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S506</i></td> <td>ex MAS 574</td> <td>Celli, <a href="/wiki/Venice" title="Venice">Venice</a></td> <td>1941</td> <td>Sunk at Constanta on 25 August 1944 </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S507</i></td> <td>ex MAS 575</td> <td>Celli, Venice</td> <td>1941</td> <td>Sunk in Black Sea 1944 </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S508</i></td> <td>ex MAS 525</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cantieri_Riuniti_dell%27Adriatico" title="Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico">CRDA</a>, <a href="/wiki/Monfalcone" title="Monfalcone">Monfalcone</a></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S509</i></td> <td>ex MAS 549</td> <td>CRDA, Monfalcone</td> <td>1939</td> <td>Sunk (as <i>SA 12</i>) at Imperia on 24 April 1945 </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S510</i></td> <td>ex MAS 551</td> <td>CRDA, Monfalcone</td> <td>1941</td> <td>Sunk (as <i>SA 13</i>) at Imperia on 24 April 1945 </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S511</i></td> <td>ex MAS 557</td> <td>Picchiotti, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Limite_sull%27Arno&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Limite sull'Arno (page does not exist)">Limite sull'Arno</a></td> <td>7 March 1941</td> <td>Sunk by British air attack on 4 December 1944 </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S512</i></td> <td>ex MAS 553</td> <td>CRDA, Monfalcone</td> <td>10 May 1941</td> <td>Sunk (as <i>SA 14</i>) at Imperia on 24 April 1945 </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="S601_class"><i>S601</i> class</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: S601 class"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Further small ex-Italian Navy boats of the Baglietto fast type (of various classes)<sup id="cite_ref-Aldo_Fraccaroli_1968_34-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Aldo_Fraccaroli_1968-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> were taken over by the Germans. </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"> <tbody><tr> <td>Number</td> <td>Ex-Italian</td> <td>Built</td> <td>Launched</td> <td>Fate </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S601</i></td> <td>ex MAS 542</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Venice" title="Venice">Venice</a></td> <td>5 July 1939</td> <td>Sunk in Aegean by air attack 1944. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S602</i></td> <td>ex MAS 430</td> <td>Venice</td> <td>1929</td> <td>Scuttled 1944 at Sebenico. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S603</i></td> <td>ex MAS 431</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Varazze" title="Varazze">Varazze</a></td> <td>1931</td> <td>Sunk November 1943 at Zara-Sebenico. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S604</i></td> <td>ex MAS 423</td> <td>Venice</td> <td>March 1929</td> <td>Sunk in 1944 in the Adriatic. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S621</i></td> <td>ex MAS 561</td> <td>Varazze</td> <td>4 February 1941</td> <td>Sunk (as <i>SA 16</i>) near Imperia on 24 April 1945 </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S622</i></td> <td>ex MAS 550</td> <td>Monfalcone</td> <td>23 September 1939</td> <td>Sunk (as <i>SA 21</i>) in air attack at Monfalcone on 14 March 1944. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S623</i></td> <td>ex MAS 554</td> <td>Monfalcone</td> <td>20 May 1941</td> <td>Scuttled (as <i>SA 20</i>) at Trieste on 1 May 1945; refloated and scrapped </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S624</i></td> <td>ex MAS 424</td> <td>Varasse</td> <td>24 October 1937</td> <td>Sunk (as <i>SA 17</i>) in air attack at Monfalcone on 14 March 1944. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S625</i></td> <td>ex MAS 437</td> <td>Venice</td> <td>1934</td> <td>Sunk (as <i>SA 18</i>) in May 1945 </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S626</i></td> <td>ex MAS 502</td> <td>Varazze</td> <td>24 April 1936</td> <td>Sunk by German artillery off La Spezia March 1944 </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S627</i></td> <td>ex MAS 504</td> <td>Varazze</td> <td>24 August 1936</td> <td>Sunk off Anzio by HMS <i>Grenville</i> on 25 March 1944. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S628</i></td> <td>ex MAS 505</td> <td>Varazze</td> <td>19 February 1937</td> <td>Sunk (as <i>SA 19</i>) at Genoa in May 1945 </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S629</i></td> <td>ex MAS 558</td> <td>Venice</td> <td>1940</td> <td>Scuttled (as <i>SA 15</i>) near Imperia on 24 April 1945. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S630</i></td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="S700_class"><i>S700</i> class</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: S700 class"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Late war design proposal with stern torpedo tubes and 30 mm gun turret forward. These were intended to be slightly larger, of prefabricated construction, and to be propelled by the supercharged MB518 engines. They were to have carried two stern-firing torpedo tubes in addition to the usual two bow tubes, with a special 30mm gun in a bow turret. These were ordered from Danziger Waggonfabrik at Danzig on 4 December 1943 as <i>S701</i> to <i>S825</i> (125 boats), but only the first nine boats were built, and these were completed to <i>S100</i> design specification with MB511 diesel engines after the production of the MB518 engine was cancelled due to Allied bombing. The other boats were cancelled or scrapped unfinished in the shipyard. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SCHNELLBOOTE_701.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/SCHNELLBOOTE_701.jpg/220px-SCHNELLBOOTE_701.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/SCHNELLBOOTE_701.jpg/330px-SCHNELLBOOTE_701.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/SCHNELLBOOTE_701.jpg/440px-SCHNELLBOOTE_701.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2577" data-file-height="1498" /></a><figcaption>Schnellboot <i>S701</i> in April 1945. This torpedo boat was part of the 8th flotilla based in Ijmuiden. The <i>S701</i> had been delivered to the Kriegsmarine in July, 1944. It was surrendered to the U.S. Navy in 1945 and then sold to the Dutch Navy.</figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"> <tbody><tr> <td>Number</td> <td>Builder</td> <td>Launched</td> <td>Commissioned</td> <td>Fate </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S701</i></td> <td>Danziger Waggonfabrik</td> <td>1944</td> <td>3 July 1944</td> <td>Badly damaged on 23 January 1945 in collision with <i>S199</i>; <br />to USA 1945, then sold to Netherlands Navy 1951 </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S702</i></td> <td>Danziger Waggonfabrik</td> <td>1944</td> <td>30 July 1944</td> <td>Sunk in action with British MTBs on 19 September 1944 after collision with <i>S200</i>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S703</i></td> <td>Danziger Waggonfabrik</td> <td>1944</td> <td>30 August 1944</td> <td>Sunk after collision with <i>S202</i> on 8 April 1945 in the <a href="/wiki/Scheldt" title="Scheldt">Scheldt</a> approaches in action with British MGBs.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Paterson_p._312_45-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Paterson_p._312-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S704</i></td> <td>Danziger Waggonfabrik</td> <td>1944</td> <td>2 October 1944</td> <td>To USSR on 15 January 1946 as <i>TK-1027</i>, scrapped 1949 </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S705</i></td> <td>Danziger Waggonfabrik</td> <td>1944</td> <td>22 October 1944</td> <td>To UK on 4 January 1946, scrapped 1947. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S706</i></td> <td>Danziger Waggonfabrik</td> <td>1944</td> <td>31 October 1944</td> <td>To USA on 30 January 1947, fate unknown. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S707</i></td> <td>Danziger Waggonfabrik</td> <td>1944</td> <td>4 December 1944</td> <td>To USSR on 15 January 1946 as <i>TK-1028</i>, scrapped 1949. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S708</i></td> <td>Danziger Waggonfabrik</td> <td>1944</td> <td>19 February 1945</td> <td>To USSR on 15 January 1946 as <i>TK-1029</i>, scrapped 1954. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>S709</i></td> <td>Danziger Waggonfabrik</td> <td>1944</td> <td>1945</td> <td>To USSR on 29 March 1946 as <i>TK-1030</i>, scrapped 1949. </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>In the 1944 Programme it was intended to increase production of E-boats to deliver 150 boats per annum, but this level was never achieved. In November 1944 there were 292 boats on order, of which 138 were under construction, usually awaiting delivery of the new MB518 engines, while the other 154 boats were unstarted. Eventually, as the ability to provide engines increased, only 19 of the 138 boats were actually completed. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="KS-boats_(Kleinst_Schnellboote),_originally_KM-series_(Küstenminenleger)"><span id="KS-boats_.28Kleinst_Schnellboote.29.2C_originally_KM-series_.28K.C3.BCstenminenleger.29"></span>KS-boats (<i>Kleinst Schnellboote</i>), originally KM-series (<i>Küstenminenleger</i>)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: KS-boats (Kleinst Schnellboote), originally KM-series (Küstenminenleger)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A class of small fast attack craft designed as offensive mine-layers (rated <i>Küstenminenleger</i>), able to carry up to 4 mines, and to operate close to enemy shores. They measured 15.95 x 3.50 x 1.10 m (52 ft 4in x 11 ft 6in x 3 ft 7in); 15/16 tonnes standard (18/19 tonnes full load). Powered by 2 BMW MB507 12-cylinder aero engines producing 1,650 hp (32 knots), although four boats (nos. 1, 2, 5 and 6) had two Junkers 4-cylinder diesels of 1,500 hp to produce speeds of 30/40.9 knots; radius 225 miles at 25 knots. A total of 36 were ordered (most on 29 and 31 July 1940, but <i>KM1</i> to <i>KM4</i> were ordered on 26 August, and <i>KM25</i> and <i>KM26</i> on 11 October 1940), but as their engines proved unreliable, they were not used in their intended role and instead most were employed in lakes and rivers, being attached to the <a href="/wiki/Lake_Peipus" title="Lake Peipus">Peipusee</a> Flotilla (<i>KM3</i> to the <a href="/wiki/Lake_Ladoga" title="Lake Ladoga">Ladogasee</a> Flotilla). As minelayers they carried four TMB mines and a single Mg39 gun, plus a crew of 6. 21 boats were equipped with 2 x 450mm fixed stern torpedo tubes replkacing the mines, and were reclassed as <b>KS-boats</b> (<i>Kleinst Schnellboote</i>), retaining their original numberss but replacing the "KM" prefix by "KS". </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"> <tbody><tr> <td>Number</td> <td>Builder</td> <td>Commissioned</td> <td>Reclassed as <i>KS</i></td> <td>Fate </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>KS1</i></td> <td>Nordbjaerg & Wedell, <a href="/wiki/Copenhagen" title="Copenhagen">Copenhagen</a></td> <td>18 December 1941</td> <td>February 1944</td> <td>To Finland in 1942; sunk 2 July 1944 but raised; to USSR 1945, fate unknown. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>KS2</i></td> <td>Nordbjaerg & Wedell, Copenhagen</td> <td>18 December 1941</td> <td>February 1944</td> <td>To Finland in 1942; to USSR 1945, fate unknown. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>KS9</i></td> <td>Engelbrecht, <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a></td> <td>February 1943</td> <td>October 1943</td> <td>Destroyed on 18 September 1944. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>KS10</i></td> <td>Engelbrecht, Berlin</td> <td>February 1943</td> <td>December 1943</td> <td>Destroyed on 18 September 1944. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>KS11</i></td> <td>Engelbrecht, Berlin</td> <td>March 1943</td> <td>March 1943</td> <td>Given to Croatian Navy in October 1944, fate unknown. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>KS12</i></td> <td>Engelbrecht, Berlin</td> <td>1943</td> <td>December 1943</td> <td>Destroyed on 18 September 1944. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>KS13</i></td> <td>Engelbrecht, Berlin</td> <td>1943</td> <td>December 1943</td> <td>Fate unknown. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>KS14</i></td> <td>Engelbrecht, Berlin</td> <td>1943</td> <td>December 1943</td> <td>Fate unknown. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>KS15</i></td> <td>Engelbrecht, Berlin</td> <td>1943</td> <td>December 1943</td> <td>Fate unknown. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>KS16</i></td> <td>Kreigermann, Berlin-Pichelsdorf</td> <td>December 1941</td> <td>December 1943</td> <td>Destroyed on 18 September 1944. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>KS17</i></td> <td>Kreigermann, Berlin-Pichelsdorf</td> <td>17 July 1942</td> <td>March 1943</td> <td>Given to Croatian Navy in October 1944, fate unknown. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>KS18</i></td> <td>Kreigermann, Berlin-Pichelsdorf</td> <td>17 July 1942</td> <td>March 1943</td> <td>Given to Croatian Navy in September 1944, fate unknown. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>KS20</i></td> <td>Reinickewerft, Berlin-Pichelsdorf</td> <td>17 July 1942</td> <td>December 1943</td> <td>Sunk on 5 September 1044 after fire. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>KS21</i></td> <td>Kreigermann, Berlin-Pichelsdorf</td> <td>21 July 1942</td> <td>1943</td> <td>Given to Croatian Navy in September 1944, fate unknown </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>KS22</i></td> <td>Nordbjaerg & Wedell, Copenhagen</td> <td>9 June 1942</td> <td>1943</td> <td>To Finland in 1942; to USSR 1945, fate unknown. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>KS23</i></td> <td>Rob. Franz Niederfehme</td> <td>17 July 1942</td> <td>1943</td> <td>Given to Croatian Navy in December 1944; fate unknown. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>KS24</i></td> <td>Rob. Franz Niederfehme</td> <td>17 July 1942</td> <td>1943</td> <td>Given to Croatian Navy in December 1944; fate unknown. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>KS25</i></td> <td>Rob. Franz Niederfehme</td> <td>12 December 1942</td> <td>1943</td> <td>Fate unknown. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>KS26</i></td> <td>Rob. Franz Niederfehme</td> <td>February 1943</td> <td>1943</td> <td>Fate unknown. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>KS31</i></td> <td>Nordbjaerg & Wedell, Copenhagen</td> <td>February 1943</td> <td>1943</td> <td>Given to Croatian Navy in September 1944, fate unknown. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>KS32</i></td> <td>Nordbjaerg & Wedell, Copenhagen</td> <td>February 1943</td> <td>1943</td> <td>Given to Croatian Navy in September 1944, fate unknown. </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>Of the unreclassified boats, <i>KM27</i> to <i>KM30</i> were all sunk by Soviet aircraft in the Gulf of Bothnia during 1943. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="LS-boats_(Leichte_Schnellboote)"><span id="LS-boats_.28Leichte_Schnellboote.29"></span>LS-boats (<i>Leichte Schnellboote</i>)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: LS-boats (Leichte Schnellboote)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Another class of even smaller fast attack boat, not intended to operate independently, but to be based on auxiliary cruisers or other vessels operating in overseas areas. They measured 12.50 x 3.46 x 1.02 m (41 ft x 11 ft 4in x 3 ft 4in). These 2-shaft boats weighed 11.5 - 13 tons. The first six were powered by two Junkers 6-cyl JuMo205 aircraft engines, they reached 38 knots. Later boats had two Daimler-Benz MB507 12-cyl diesels of 2,000 hp reaching 40.9 knots, and with an endurance of 300 miles at 30 knots. They carried two 450mm torpedo tubes (instead of up to 4 mines), but had depth charges and a single 20mm MG (in an enclosed turret), plus 7 men. A total of 34 of these boats were ordered, the prototype from Naglo Werft, Berlin, and all the others from Dornier Werft, <a href="/wiki/Friedrichshafen" title="Friedrichshafen">Friedrichshafen</a>, but the prototype was not completed and only the next eleven were completed; another six (<i>LS13</i> to <i>LS18</i>) were taken over by France incomplete following the war's end, and completed for them; the final 16 (<i>LS19</i> to <i>LS34</i>) were cancelled in 1944. </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"> <tbody><tr> <td>Number</td> <td>Builder</td> <td>Commissioned</td> <td>Fate </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>LS1</i></td> <td>Naglo Werft</td> <td>Launched 1940</td> <td>Never completed as the boat's hull was found to be too heavy. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>LS2</i></td> <td>Dornier Werft</td> <td>14 June 1940</td> <td>Used aboard commerce raider <i>Komet</i>; scuttled on 23 December 1940. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>LS3</i></td> <td>Dornier Werft</td> <td>14 October 1940</td> <td>Used aboard commerce raider <i>Kormoran</i>; destroyed on 20 November 1941. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>LS4</i></td> <td>Dornier Werft</td> <td>5 July 1941</td> <td>Used aboard commerce raider <i>Michel</i>; destroyed on 17 October 1943. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>LS5</i></td> <td>Dornier Werft</td> <td>15 October 1941</td> <td>Used as escort vessel in the <a href="/wiki/Aegean_Sea" title="Aegean Sea">Aegean Sea</a>; sunk off <a href="/wiki/Kos" title="Kos">Kos</a> in air attack on 2 November 1943. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>LS6</i></td> <td>Dornier Werft</td> <td>15 October 1941</td> <td>Used as escort vessel in the <a href="/wiki/Aegean_Sea" title="Aegean Sea">Aegean Sea</a>; sunk in air attack on 25 September 1943 </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>LS7</i></td> <td>Dornier Werft</td> <td>8 October 1943</td> <td>Grounded on 14 October 1944 off <a href="/wiki/Grado,_Friuli-Venezia_Giulia" class="mw-redirect" title="Grado, Friuli-Venezia Giulia">Grado</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>LS8</i></td> <td>Dornier Werft</td> <td>20 December 1943</td> <td>Destroyed by own crew on 21 September 1944 in Phaleron Harbour (Piraeus). </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>LS9</i></td> <td>Dornier Werft</td> <td>20 January 1944</td> <td>Destroyed by own crew on 21 September 1944 in Phaleron Harbour (Piraeus). </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>LS10</i></td> <td>Dornier Werft</td> <td>27 January 1944</td> <td>Sunk by aircraft on 14 October 1944 off <a href="/wiki/Volos" title="Volos">Volos</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>LS11</i></td> <td>Dornier Werft</td> <td>18 May 1944</td> <td>Destroyed by own crew on 21 September 1944 in Phaleron Harbour (Piraeus). </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>LS12</i></td> <td>Dornier Werft</td> <td>12 July 1944</td> <td>To USSR in 1945, and scrapped. </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/ships/index.html">https://www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/ships/index.html</a> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E-boat&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Daimler-Benz_DB_602" title="Daimler-Benz DB 602">Daimler-Benz DB 602</a>, V-16 diesel aero-engine that was developed into the MB502 and MB501.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fast_Attack_Craft_War_Badge" title="Fast Attack Craft War Badge">Fast Attack Craft War Badge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Knight%27s_Cross_recipients_of_the_Schnellboot_service" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Knight's Cross recipients of the Schnellboot service">List of Knight's Cross recipients of the Schnellboot service</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R_boat" title="R boat">R boat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steam_gun_boat" title="Steam gun boat">Steam gun boat</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span 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"Question 24/46: German E-Boats Based in Sicily". <i>Warship International</i>. <b>XLVII</b> (3): 204–208. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0043-0374">0043-0374</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Warship+International&rft.atitle=Question+24%2F46%3A+German+E-Boats+Based+in+Sicily&rft.volume=XLVII&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=204-208&rft.date=2010&rft.issn=0043-0374&rft.aulast=Bellars&rft.aufirst=Robert+A.&rft.au=Freivogel%2C+Zvonimir&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AE-boat" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDallies-Labourdette2003" class="citation book cs1">Dallies-Labourdette, Jean Philippe (June 2003). <i>German S-boote at War, 1939–1945</i>. Histoire and Collections. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/2-913903-49-5" title="Special:BookSources/2-913903-49-5"><bdi>2-913903-49-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=German+S-boote+at+War%2C+1939%E2%80%931945&rft.pub=Histoire+and+Collections&rft.date=2003-06&rft.isbn=2-913903-49-5&rft.aulast=Dallies-Labourdette&rft.aufirst=Jean+Philippe&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AE-boat" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKrakow2013" class="citation book cs1">Krakow, David (August 2013). <i>Schnellboot in Action</i> (2nd (Warships) ed.). Squadron/Signal Publications. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-89747-660-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-89747-660-7"><bdi>978-0-89747-660-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Schnellboot+in+Action&rft.edition=2nd+%28Warships%29&rft.pub=Squadron%2FSignal+Publications&rft.date=2013-08&rft.isbn=978-0-89747-660-7&rft.aulast=Krakow&rft.aufirst=David&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AE-boat" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKrakowConnelly2003" class="citation book cs1">Krakow, David & Connelly, Garth (January 2003). <i>Schnellboot in Action (Warships)</i>. Squadron/Signal Publications. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-89747-457-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-89747-457-0"><bdi>0-89747-457-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Schnellboot+in+Action+%28Warships%29&rft.pub=Squadron%2FSignal+Publications&rft.date=2003-01&rft.isbn=0-89747-457-0&rft.aulast=Krakow&rft.aufirst=David&rft.au=Connelly%2C+Garth&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AE-boat" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMacpherson1981" class="citation book cs1">Macpherson, Ken (1981). <i>Ships Of Canada's Naval Forces (Warships)</i>. Collins Publications. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-00-216856-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-00-216856-1"><bdi>0-00-216856-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Ships+Of+Canada%27s+Naval+Forces+%28Warships%29&rft.pub=Collins+Publications&rft.date=1981&rft.isbn=0-00-216856-1&rft.aulast=Macpherson&rft.aufirst=Ken&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AE-boat" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMargaritis2019" class="citation book cs1">Margaritis, Peter (2019). <i>Countdown to D-Day: The German Perspective</i>. Oxford, UK & PA, USA: Casemate. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-61200-769-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-61200-769-4"><bdi>978-1-61200-769-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Countdown+to+D-Day%3A+The+German+Perspective&rft.place=Oxford%2C+UK+%26+PA%2C+USA&rft.pub=Casemate&rft.date=2019&rft.isbn=978-1-61200-769-4&rft.aulast=Margaritis&rft.aufirst=Peter&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AE-boat" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWilliamson2011" class="citation book cs1">Williamson, Gordon (2011). <i>E-boat vs MTB: The English Channel 1941–45</i>. Oxford; Long Island City: Osprey. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84908-407-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84908-407-9"><bdi>978-1-84908-407-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=E-boat+vs+MTB%3A+The+English+Channel+1941%E2%80%9345&rft.place=Oxford%3B+Long+Island+City&rft.pub=Osprey&rft.date=2011&rft.isbn=978-1-84908-407-9&rft.aulast=Williamson&rft.aufirst=Gordon&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AE-boat" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWilliamsonPalmer2002" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Gordon_Williamson_(writer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gordon Williamson (writer)">Williamson, Gordon</a>; Palmer, Ian (September 18, 2002). <i>German E-boats 1939–45</i>. 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battleship"><i>Bismarck</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H-class_battleship_proposals" title="H-class battleship proposals">H</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>X</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/O-class_battlecruiser" title="O-class battlecruiser">O</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>X</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Pre-dreadnought" class="mw-redirect" title="Pre-dreadnought">Pre-dreadnought</a> <a href="/wiki/Battleship" title="Battleship">battleships</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Deutschland-class_battleship" title="Deutschland-class battleship"><i>Deutschland</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a 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class</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bismarck-class_battleship" title="Bismarck-class battleship"><i>Bismarck</i> class</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deutschland-class_battleship" title="Deutschland-class battleship"><i>Deutschland</i> class</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Heavy_cruiser" title="Heavy cruiser">Heavy cruisers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Deutschland-class_cruiser" title="Deutschland-class cruiser"><i>Deutschland</i> class</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Admiral_Hipper-class_cruiser" title="Admiral Hipper-class cruiser"><i>Admiral Hipper</i> class</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Light_cruiser" title="Light cruiser">Light cruisers</a></th><td 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href="/wiki/German_torpedo_boats_of_World_War_II" title="German torpedo boats of World War II">Torpedo boats</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Attack boats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vorpostenboot" title="Vorpostenboot">Patrol boats</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Submarines</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U-boats_of_Germany" title="List of U-boats of Germany">U-boats</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_U-boat_types#World_War_II" title="List of U-boat types">types</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U-boat_flotillas" title="List of U-boat flotillas">U-boat flotillas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U-boat_regions" title="List of U-boat regions">U-boat regions</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Other craft</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Graf_Zeppelin-class_aircraft_carrier" title="Graf Zeppelin-class aircraft carrier">Aircraft carriers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/F-class_escort_ship" title="F-class escort ship">Escort ships</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merchant_raider" title="Merchant raider">Commerce raiders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marinef%C3%A4hrprahm" title="Marinefährprahm">Landing craft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gorch_Fock_(1933)" title="Gorch Fock (1933)">Sail barques</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d7d7d7;;width:1%">Flotillas</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Surface_flotillas_of_the_Kriegsmarine" title="Surface flotillas of the Kriegsmarine">Surface flotillas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minesweeper_flotilla_(Kriegsmarine)" title="Minesweeper flotilla (Kriegsmarine)">Minesweeper flotillas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Vorpostenboote_in_World_War_II" title="List of Vorpostenboote in World War II">Patrol boat flotillas</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d7d7d7;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Naval_regions_and_districts_of_the_Kriegsmarine" title="Naval regions and districts of the Kriegsmarine">Shore Forces</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_German_naval_ports_during_World_War_II" title="List of German naval ports during World War II">Naval bases</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sea_defense_zone" title="Sea defense zone">Sea defense zones</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d7d7d7;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">Battles and engagements</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Battles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Barents_Sea" title="Battle of the Barents Sea">Barents Sea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bay_of_Biscay" title="Battle of the Bay of Biscay">Bay of Biscay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Last_battle_of_the_battleship_Bismarck" class="mw-redirect" title="Last battle of the battleship Bismarck">Bismarck sinking</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Caribbean" title="Battle of the Caribbean">Caribbean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naval_Battle_of_Casablanca" title="Naval Battle of Casablanca">Casablanca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Denmark_Strait" title="Battle of the Denmark Strait">Denmark Strait</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Horten_Harbour" title="Battle of Horten Harbour">Horten Harbour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ist" title="Battle of Ist">Ist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_La_Ciotat" title="Battle of La Ciotat">La Ciotat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Ligurian_Sea" title="Battle of the Ligurian Sea">Ligurian Sea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Nerva_Island" title="Battle of Nerva Island">Nerva Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_North_Cape" title="Battle of the North Cape">North Cape</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Pierres_Noires" title="Battle of Pierres Noires">Pierres Noires</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Point_Judith" title="Battle of Point Judith">Point Judith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_River_Plate" title="Battle of the River Plate">River Plate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sept-%C3%8Eles" title="Battle of Sept-Îles">Sept-Îles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Someri" title="Battle of Someri">Someri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_St._Lawrence" title="Battle of the St. Lawrence">St. Lawrence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sinking_of_HMAS_Sydney" title="Sinking of HMAS Sydney">Sydney-Kormoran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ushant_(1944)" title="Battle of Ushant (1944)">Ushant</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Campaigns</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Atlantic" title="Battle of the Atlantic">Atlantic</a> (<a href="/wiki/First_Happy_Time" title="First Happy Time">1st H.T.</a>/<a href="/wiki/Second_Happy_Time" title="Second Happy Time">2nd H.T.</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baltic_Sea_campaigns_(1939%E2%80%9345)" class="mw-redirect" title="Baltic Sea campaigns (1939–45)">Baltic Sea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Sea_campaigns_(1941%E2%80%9344)" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Sea campaigns (1941–44)">Black Sea</a> (<a href="/wiki/Raid_on_Constan%C8%9Ba" title="Raid on Constanța">Constanța</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Mediterranean" title="Battle of the Mediterranean">Mediterranean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Weser%C3%BCbung" title="Operation Weserübung">Norway & Denmark</a> (<a href="/wiki/Operationsbefehl_Hartmut" title="Operationsbefehl Hartmut">Hartmut</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Operations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> 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style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Action_of_4_April_1941" title="Action of 4 April 1941">4 Apr 41</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Action_of_8_May_1941" title="Action of 8 May 1941">8 May 41</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Action_of_27_March_1942" title="Action of 27 March 1942">27 Mar 42</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Action_of_13_May_1942" title="Action of 13 May 1942">13 May 42</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Action_of_6_June_1942" title="Action of 6 June 1942">6 Jun 42</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Action_of_14_February_1944" title="Action of 14 February 1944">14 Feb 44</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Action_of_1_November_1944" title="Action of 1 November 1944">1 Nov 44</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Action_of_26_April_1944" title="Action of 26 April 1944">26 Apr 44</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Action_of_28_January_1945" title="Action of 28 January 1945">28 Jan 44</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Action_of_9_February_1945" class="mw-redirect" title="Action of 9 February 1945">9 Feb 45</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Sieges</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bombardment_of_Cherbourg" title="Bombardment of Cherbourg">Cherbourg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bombardment_of_Cura%C3%A7ao" title="Bombardment of Curaçao">Curaçao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allied_siege_of_La_Rochelle" title="Allied siege of La Rochelle">La Rochelle</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d7d7d7;;width:1%">Uniforms and awards</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Uniforms_and_insignia_of_the_Kriegsmarine" title="Uniforms and insignia of the Kriegsmarine">Uniforms and insignia</a></li> 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title="Escorteur">Escorteur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frigate" title="Frigate">Frigate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guided-missile_destroyer" title="Guided-missile destroyer">Guided-missile destroyer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaib%C5%8Dkan" title="Kaibōkan">Kaibōkan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radar_picket" title="Radar picket">Radar picket</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sloop-of-war" title="Sloop-of-war">Sloop</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Transport</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amphibious_transport_dock" title="Amphibious transport dock">Amphibious transport dock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amphibious_warfare_ship" title="Amphibious warfare ship">Amphibious warfare ship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attack_transport" title="Attack transport">Attack transport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dock_landing_ship" title="Dock 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