Dimensions
- Size (Max)
- 102 t
- Length (Total)
- 32,76 m
- Beam
- 5,06 m
- Draft
- 1,47 m
- Crew
- 24-30
Design and development
The class
Because if the limited construction capacity of the 20 cylinder Mercedes Benz Engines, a class of 16 fast attack boats, the Schnellboot 1939, was equipped with the less powerful 16 cylinder engines. Because of that, those boats did not archive the high speed of the other German fast attack boats, which made them even more vulnerable than the other boats.
The Schnellboot 1939 had slightly smaller dimensions than the other fast attack boats - which favored them to be relocated to the Mediterranean via the Rhine and Rhone rivers. In 1941 and 1942, all of the remaining boats of this class sent to the Mediterranean this way. There most of them got lost, mainly because of mine hits. Only three of them survived the war and surrendered to allied forces in May 1945.
Construction records
Boats of the class
16 boats and their recorded construction details and fates.
16 boats
| Name | Construction | Launched | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S30 | Lürssen Vegesack, 1939 | 10.09.1939 | 23.11.1939 | Delivered to allied forces on 03.05.1945 in Ancona. |
| S31 | Lürssen Vegesack, 1939 | 21.10.1939 | 28.12.1939 | Sunk after mine hit in the Medeterranian on 10.05.1942. |
| S32 | Lürssen Vegesack, 1939 | 22.11.1939 | 15.03.1940 | Sunk after mine hit near Dungeness on 22.06.1940. |
| S33 | Lürssen Vegesack, 1939 | 27.12.1939 | 23.03.1940 | Beached on the Island of Unije, destroyed by MTB 698. on 16.01.1945. |
| S34 | Lürssen Vegesack, 1939 | 29.02.1940 | 30.04.1940 | Badly damaged by costal artilelry near La Valetta on 17.05.1942. Sunk by German Me109 fighter. |
| S35 | Lürssen Vegesack, 1937 | 19.03.1940 | 19.05.1940 | Sunk after mine hit in the Mediterranean on 28.02.1943. |
| S36 | Lürssen Vegesack, 1939 | 20.04.1940 | 14.06.1940 | Delivered to allied forces on 03.05.1945 in Ancona. |
| S37 | Lürssen Vegesack, 1939 | 15.05.1940 | 11.07.1940 | Sunk after mine hit near Orfordness on 12.10.1940. |
| S54 | Lürssen Vegesack, 1940 | 11.06.1940 | 09.08.1940 | Badly damaged after mine hit on 23.04.1944, decomissioend and scrapped on 31.10.1944. |
| S55 | Lürssen Vegesack, 1940 | 02.07.1940 | 23.08.1940 | Sunk after own torpedo explosion caused by a bomb hit on 10.01.1944. |
| S56 | Lürssen Vegesack, 1940 | 22.07.1940 | 20.09.1940 | Sunk after bomb hits while being in Toulon shipyard on 24.11.1943. |
| S57 | Lürssen Vegesack, 1940 | 10.08.1940 | 30.09.1940 | Sunk by British MTBs on 19.08.1944 in the Adriatic Sea. |
| S58 | Lürssen Vegesack, 1940 | 10.09.1940 | 18.11.1940 | Beached on the Island of Unije, destroyed by MGBs on 17.01.1945. |
| S59 | Lürssen Vegesack, 1940 | 20.10.1940 | 27.11.1940 | Sunk after bomb hit on 06.07.1943. |
| S60 | Lürssen Vegesack, 1940 | 22.10.1940 | 20.12.1940 | Beached on the Island of Unije, destroyed by MGBs on 17.01.1945. |
| S61 | Lürssen Vegesack, 1940 | 27.11.1940 | 01.02.1941 | Delivered to allied forces on 03.05.1945 in Ancona. |
No matching boat was found.
At a glance
Technical profile
Principal dimensions, armament, machinery and performance.
Armament
- 2 cm MG
- 1
- Machine Guns
- 2-8
- 53,3 cm Torpedo tubes
- 2 (max 4 spare torpedoes)
- Mines
- 4 LMF/UMB or 6 LMB/TMB
Machinery
- Shafts
- 3
- Engines
- 3
- Type
- Daimler-Benz MB 502 16-cyl diesel engine
Performance
- Total Performance
- up to 3960 shp
- Speed
- 36 kn
- Range
- 800 miles at 30 kn
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