PT - Schnellboot S 8 (1934)

Schnellboot S 8
S 8 fast motorboat



Schnellboot S 8
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
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