Schnellboot S 8
S 8 fast motorboat
Sources :
Przemysław Fedorowicz
Schnellboots - German torpedo boats of the World War II period
MILITARIA XX wieku No: 5/14 2006
Oficyna Wydawnicza Kagero
Connely G. Krakow D.
Schnellboot in action, Warschip No.18
ISBN: 0897474570
Deutsche Schnellboote 1939 - 1945
Jean-Phil Dallies-Labourdette
Motorbuch Verlag, 2006
ISBN-10: 3613026732
ISBN-13: 9783613026735
www.german-navy.de
www.warships.web4u.cz
www.prinzeugen.com
www.wlb-stuttgart.de
S 8 fast motorboat
Schnellboot S 8 | |
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Ship designation : | S 8 |
Class : | S-7 (1933A) |
Shipyard : | Lürssen Werft Bremen - Vegesack |
Building number : | 12425 |
Start of construction : | 1933 |
Launching : | 23.01.1934 |
Maximum displacement : (t) | 86 |
Standard displacement : (t) | 75.8 |
Length: (m) | 32.36 |
Width : (m) | 5.06 |
Dive maximum : (m) | 1.42 |
Standard draft : (m) | 1.36 |
Propulsion : | 3x MAN L7 Zu 19/30 |
Power : ( HP) | 3960 |
Max speed : ( kn) | 36.5 |
Sailing speed: ( kn) | 30 |
Range/speed : ( n.m. / kn) | 758/22 600/30 |
Fuel quantity : (t) | 10.5 |
Bolts-quantity/average : (pcs./m) | 3/1.23 |
Armament : | 2 × TT 533 mm torpedo tubes 1 × anti-aircraft gun 2 cm/65 "C/30" 1 × MG 7.9 cm machine gun |
Number of torpedoes : | 2 |
Crew : | 18 - 23 |
Brief History : | Service with the school fleets in the Baltic 11.9.1940 converted to submarine fighter and assigned to Schnellen U-Jagd-Gruppe 17.5.1945 sunk (according to other sources 1947/48 sold and scrapped) |
Sources :
Przemysław Fedorowicz
Schnellboots - German torpedo boats of the World War II period
MILITARIA XX wieku No: 5/14 2006
Oficyna Wydawnicza Kagero
Connely G. Krakow D.
Schnellboot in action, Warschip No.18
ISBN: 0897474570
Deutsche Schnellboote 1939 - 1945
Jean-Phil Dallies-Labourdette
Motorbuch Verlag, 2006
ISBN-10: 3613026732
ISBN-13: 9783613026735
www.german-navy.de
www.warships.web4u.cz
www.prinzeugen.com
www.wlb-stuttgart.de